Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 76 Sheep Mountain
Wyoming Hunt Area 76 covers 261,881 acres and lies 23 miles west of Laramie and 40 miles east of Encampment. 66% of it is public land, mostly national forest (50%) and state land (10%). In 2025, 1,037 people hunted mule deer here and took 247, a 24% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
50% Forest Service
261,881 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 76 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.
Harvest
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,037 | 247 | 24% |
| 2024 | 901 | 204 | 23% |
| 2023 | 773 | 204 | 26% |
| 2022 | 777 | 157 | 20% |
| 2021 | 790 | 216 | 27% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | 10 | 8% |
| 2024 | 107 | 5 | 5% |
| 2023 | 103 | 8 | 8% |
| 2022 | 63 | 2 | 3% |
| 2021 | 83 | 4 | 5% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 1,037 | 247 | 24% |
| White-tailed deer · 75 licenses | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| White-tailed deer · 100 licenses | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| White-tailed deer | 119 | 10 | 8% |
2025 split: archery 45 (18%), firearm 202 (82%) · residents 240 from 969 hunters, nonresidents 7 from 68 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
| National Forest | 130,909 ac | 50% |
| Private | 89,627 ac | 34% |
| State land | 24,985 ac | 10% |
| BLM | 9,885 ac | 4% |
| Other public | 2,921 ac | 1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 1,981 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 1,506 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 7
- 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
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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