Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 6

Skull Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 6 covers 262,727 acres and lies 12 miles north of Newcastle and 28 miles south of Sundance. 28% of it is public land, mostly national forest (11%) and state land (11%). In 2025, 560 people hunted mule deer here and took 247 — 44% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):44% Public land:28% Size:262,727 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 6 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Wyoming deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunt Area 6 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 6 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

Private 190,131 ac · 72%
National Forest 28,887 ac · 11%
State land 28,219 ac · 11%
BLM 14,788 ac · 6%
County or city land 699 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in.