Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 66 Bates Hole-Hat Six

Wyoming Hunt Area 66 covers 640,893 acres and lies 17 miles south of Casper. 51% of it is public land, mostly BLM (30%) and state land (18%). In 2025, 963 people hunted mule deer here and took 365, a 38% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 66-3, put up 14 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 17 first-choice applicants.

PointsYour Wyoming preference pointsYour points

NR Tags, 2026

5 licenses

Applicants

first choice, NR

Hunter Success

38%

2025, mule deer

Public Land

51%

30% BLM

Size

1,001 mi²

640,893 acres

Casper Rolling Hills Douglas 89 88 67 65 87 64 97 70 66

38%

hunter success · 2025

963 hunters, 365 deer

38%hunter success 2025 · 963 hunters, 365 deer

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

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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

66-3

Regular · any deer

81%

Any white-tailed deer

Success: 50%
Season: Oct 15 – Nov 30
Tags / Apps: 14 / 17
If Drawn: $410.50

66-8

Reduced price · doe

60%

Doe or fawn white-tailed deer only valid in Area 88

Success: 37%
Season: Aug 15 – Oct 14
Tags / Apps: 15 / 25
If Drawn: $70.50

Every License in Hunt Area 66

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

	What	Season			Tags / Apps
66-3 Regular	Any white-tailed deer	Oct 15 – Nov 30	81%	0	14 / 17	50%
66-3 Special	Any white-tailed deer	Oct 15 – Nov 30	100%	—	6 / 0	50%
66-3 Landowner	Any white-tailed deer	Oct 15 – Nov 30	100%	—	15 / 0	50%
66-8 Reduced price	Doe or fawn white-tailed deer only valid in Area 88	Aug 15 – Oct 14	60%	—	15 / 25	37%
66-8 Landowner reduced price	Doe or fawn white-tailed deer only valid in Area 88	Aug 15 – Oct 14	100%	—	15 / 0	37%

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $410.50 ($389 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Mule Deer

Year	Hunters	Deer	Success	Days/Animal
2025	963	365	38%	10
2024	871	328	38%	8.1
2023	880	405	46%	7
2022	711	224	32%	11.3
2021	666	190	28%	12

White-tailed Deer

Year	Hunters	Deer	Success	Days/Animal
2025	390	124	32%	14.2
2024	446	147	33%	15
2023	279	96	34%	10.8
2022	221	84	38%	8.1
2021	361	129	36%	13.3

2025 by License	Hunters	Deer	Success
Mule deer	963	365	38%
White-tailed deer · 500 licenses	103	51	50%
White-tailed deer · 741 licenses	95	35	37%
White-tailed deer	231	38	17%

2025 split: archery 35 (10%), firearm 330 (90%) · residents 297 from 866 hunters, nonresidents 68 from 97 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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. Source: WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest…; WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private	313,511 ac	49%
BLM	190,850 ac	30%
State land	116,890 ac	18%
National Forest	9,171 ac	1%
County or city land	5,347 ac	<1%
Other public	3,993 ac	<1%
Bureau of Reclamation	1,156 ac	<1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

Next Door

▸ Sources 14

WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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