Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 9

Blacktail Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 9 covers 400,684 acres and lies 17 miles south-west of Newcastle and 32 miles south of Upton. 22% of it is public land, mostly national forest (9%) and state land (7%). In 2025, 209 people hunted mule deer here and took 72 — 34% of them killed something. The 2021 draw put up 61 nonresident tags here for 39 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2021):61 Applicants:39 Mule Deer success (2025):34% Public land:22% Size:400,684 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunt Area 9, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2021 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

9-7 Doe or fawn valid on private land east of U.S. Highway 85 61 tags · 39 applicants

100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
9-7 ↗ Doe or fawn valid on private land east of U.S. Highway 85	100% Undersubscribed	100%	—	61 / 39 undersubscribed	Nov 1–30, 2021

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2021 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice: Wyoming lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2021 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$49	$15	$70.50

Application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Hunt Area 9 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 9 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 311,224 ac · 78%
National Forest 36,961 ac · 9%
State land 28,530 ac · 7%
BLM 23,460 ac · 6%
County or city land 432 ac · 0%
Other public 74 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.