Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 98 Chain Lakes
Wyoming Hunt Area 98 covers 699,981 acres and lies 26 miles north-west of Rawlins and 57 miles north-west of Saratoga. 71% of it is public land, mostly BLM (64%) and state land (7%). In 2025, 76 people hunted mule deer here and took 23, a 30% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
64% BLM
699,981 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 98 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 | 76 | 23 | 30% |
| 2024 | 38 | 5 | 13% |
| 2023 | 43 | 11 | 26% |
| 2022 | 65 | 28 | 43% |
| 2021 | 74 | 14 | 19% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 76 | 23 | 30% |
| White-tailed deer | 7 | 0 | 0% |
2025 split: archery 7 (30%), firearm 16 (70%) · residents 19 from 72 hunters, nonresidents 4 from 4 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
| BLM | 448,455 ac | 64% |
| Private | 204,127 ac | 29% |
| State land | 46,713 ac | 7% |
| County or city land | 642 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 53 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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