Idaho Elk Mule Deer

Unit 20A (Middle Fork Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer

Unit 20A lies in Idaho and Valley counties and covers about 753 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,537 to 9,340 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 25%. Federal land covers about 100% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Elk Hunting in Unit 20A

Where to Find Elk in Unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 20A and says nothing about where the elk stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Idaho and Valley counties. It runs to about 753 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game runs its general elk seasons by elk management zone rather than unit by unit, and puts unit 20A in the Middle Fork Zone, so the zone's tag rules are the ones that apply here.

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Middle Fork and Hall Creek

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 20A in Idaho and Valley counties on a line that runs along Salmon River, Middle Fork, Hall Creek and Big Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Cottonwood Butte, Twin Peak and Greeley Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Cottonwood Butte at 9,340 feet, Twin Peak at 9,231 feet, Greeley Mountain at 9,204 feet, Wolf Fang Peak at 8,972 feet and Papoose Peak at 8,962 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Cold Meadows, Upper Lodgepole Meadow and Club Meadows

Below them sit Cold Meadows at 6,939 feet, Upper Lodgepole Meadow at 6,908 feet, Club Meadows at 6,889 feet, Meadow of Doubt at 6,853 feet and Phantom Meadow at 6,838 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs and Grass Mountain Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 183 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 38 stock tanks and 6 springs. Named sources include Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs, Grass Mountain Spring, Elk Spring, Chicken Spring and Quartz Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. Named ground inside unit 20A runs from 2,537 feet to 9,340 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit 20A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,608–8,534 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,470 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
753.1 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

38 tanks
6 springs
183 stream segments
14 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cottonwood Butte (9,340 ft), Twin Peak (9,231 ft), Greeley Mountain (9,204 ft), Wolf Fang Peak (8,972 ft)

Holding ground: Round Meadow (7,979 ft), Sleepy Hollow (7,623 ft), Crane Meadows (7,552 ft), Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Elk in Unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 20A at 25% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Chicken Peak, Sheepeater Mountain and Sheepeater Ridge

Take a position on one of Chicken Peak (8,645 ft), Sheepeater Mountain (8,450 ft), Sheepeater Ridge (8,447 ft) and Little Sheepeater Point (8,197 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 183 mapped stream reaches and 38 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 76/41°F, Oct 59/32°F and Nov 41/24°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.3 in. in Sep, 1.8 in. in Oct and 2.4 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: Elk Creek Road and NF 030

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cottonwood Butte, Twin Peak, Greeley Mountain and Wolf Fang Peak as places to see from, and Round Meadow, Sleepy Hollow, Crane Meadows and Soldier Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

753 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at McCall, about 55 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 6,803 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 20A

Named routes and what they need

Elk Creek Road — 14.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 030 — 2.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

McCall — 55.4 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Grangeville — 63.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Darby — 66.3 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Elk Bar Campsite
Mike's Campsite
Little Buckskin Campsite
Haynie Bar Campsite
Bluebird Hole Campsite

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 16° · 2.2" precip
Aug86° / 48° · 0.8" precip
Sep76° / 41° · 1.3" precip
Oct59° / 32° · 1.8" precip
Nov41° / 24° · 2.4" precip
Dec32° / 17° · 2.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

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Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 20A at 25% — 73 animals taken by 296 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Elk Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing elk hunt we can tie to unit 20A. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 20A

Unit 20A lies in Idaho and Valley counties and covers about 753 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,537 to 9,340 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 22%. Federal land covers about 100% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 20A stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Idaho and Valley counties. It runs to about 753 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 20A, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live.

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Middle Fork and Hall Creek

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 20A in Idaho and Valley counties on a line that runs along Salmon River, Middle Fork, Hall Creek and Big Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Farrow Mountain, Wolf Fangs and Mosquito Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Farrow Mountain at 8,925 feet, Wolf Fangs at 8,798 feet, Mosquito Peak at 8,746 feet, Chicken Peak at 8,645 feet and Sheepeater Mountain at 8,450 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Hot Springs Meadow, Middle Meadow and Dry Meadow

Below them sit Hot Springs Meadow at 6,811 feet, Middle Meadow at 6,811 feet, Dry Meadow at 6,792 feet, Harlan Meadows at 6,699 feet and White Bird Meadow at 6,660 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Barth Hot Springs, Table Spring and Stub Creek Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 183 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 38 stock tanks and 6 springs. Named sources include Barth Hot Springs, Table Spring, Stub Creek Spring, Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs and Grass Mountain Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Reading the land status

Unit 20A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,608–8,534 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,470 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
753.1 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

38 tanks
6 springs
183 stream segments
14 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cottonwood Butte (9,340 ft), Twin Peak (9,231 ft), Greeley Mountain (9,204 ft), Wolf Fang Peak (8,972 ft)

Holding ground: Round Meadow (7,979 ft), Sleepy Hollow (7,623 ft), Crane Meadows (7,552 ft), Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put deer success in unit 20A at 22% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

The 2026 controlled hunts in unit 20A

Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 rules list 2 controlled hunts for mule deer on unit 20A under its own number.

Hunt 1012 — antlered deer, unlimited tags, Nov 1–Nov 18. Nonresident tag limit is 13 tags
Hunt 1155 — outfitter allocation deer, antlered deer only, 9 tags, Nov 1–Nov 18

Dates and tag numbers are IDFG's as printed for that season, and IDFG changes hunt areas between years, so check the current booklet before you apply.

Applying for a unit 20A tag

Idaho Fish and Game's first application period for deer, elk and pronghorn runs May 1 to June 5, with results in early July, and a second period runs August 5 to 15 for what is left. A hunter drawn for a limited antlered-only deer hunt sits out the next year's first period for that kind of hunt; unlimited and extra hunts are exempt. Two to four hunters may apply together for the same hunt. Idaho's draw is random, with no preference or bonus points to build.

Glassing from Savage Point, Pilot Peak and Horse Heaven Ridge

Take a position on one of Savage Point (8,082 ft), Pilot Peak (8,020 ft), Horse Heaven Ridge (7,970 ft) and Runaway Ridge (7,898 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 183 mapped stream reaches and 38 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: Elk Creek Road and NF 030

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cottonwood Butte, Twin Peak, Greeley Mountain and Wolf Fang Peak as places to see from, and Round Meadow, Sleepy Hollow, Crane Meadows and Soldier Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

Getting in and staying out: unit 20A

Named routes and what they need

Elk Creek Road — 14.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 030 — 2.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

McCall — 55.4 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Grangeville — 63.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Darby — 66.3 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging

Developed camps

Elk Bar Campsite
Mike's Campsite
Little Buckskin Campsite
Haynie Bar Campsite
Bluebird Hole Campsite

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 16° · 2.2" precip
Aug86° / 48° · 0.8" precip
Sep76° / 41° · 1.3" precip
Oct59° / 32° · 1.8" precip
Nov41° / 24° · 2.4" precip
Dec32° / 17° · 2.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 20A at 22% — 34 animals taken by 158 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it. The figure is IDFG's result for deer in the unit, not for mule deer alone.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident)	57	57	100.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	13	30	43.0%	—

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

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Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 first drawing for mule deer in unit 20A, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 1012 — residents 57 applicants for 57 tags, 100% drawn; nonresidents 30 applicants for 13 tags, 43% drawn

Idaho draws at random with no point system, so these are what that year happened to look like, not a requirement to build toward. Idaho Fish and Game reuses hunt numbers for different areas between years, so the figures are matched on the area each hunt had in 2025. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

37 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Elk Bar Campsite, Mike's Campsite and Little Buckskin Campsite.

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Road Conditions

Elk Creek Road and NF 030 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 0 mi paved, 20 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features from 2,537 to 9,340 ft. More than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 76/41°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 59/32°F, 1.8 in.; Nov 41/24°F, 2.4 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

McCall (55 mi), Grangeville (63 mi), Darby (66 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 20A?

Unit 20A lies in Idaho and Valley counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 20A on a line that runs along Salmon River, Middle Fork, Hall Creek and Big Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It covers about 753 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 20A?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 20A at 25% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 20A hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 20A are at McCall, about 55 miles from the unit's centre, with Grangeville at about 63 miles. There are also 37 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 20A?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 20A at 22% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Game management unit boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG Middle Fork Zone elk tag limits — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for elk in unit 20A · accessed 2026-10-19
IDFG Hunt Planner — controlled hunt drawing odds — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Applicants, tags and percent drawn by hunt, year and residency · accessed 2026-06-09
IDFG GameManagementUnits and ControlledHunts_All feature services — game management units and every species' controlled-hunt areas — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Mapped extent of the unit or hunt area, Which named ground falls inside its line · accessed 2026-10-24
IDFG general deer season page for unit 20A — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24

Unit 20A (Middle Fork Zone)

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Elk Hunting in Unit 20A

Where to Find Elk in Unit 20A

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 20A

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Middle Fork and Hall Creek

High ground inside the line: Cottonwood Butte, Twin Peak and Greeley Mountain

Holding ground: Cold Meadows, Upper Lodgepole Meadow and Club Meadows

Water: Soldier Spring, Quaking Aspen Springs and Grass Mountain Spring

Reading the land status

Unit 20A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Elk in Unit 20A

Elk Success Rates

Elk Draw Odds

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 20A

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 20A

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 20A

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Middle Fork and Hall Creek

High ground inside the line: Farrow Mountain, Wolf Fangs and Mosquito Peak

Holding ground: Hot Springs Meadow, Middle Meadow and Dry Meadow

Water: Barth Hot Springs, Table Spring and Stub Creek Spring

Reading the land status

Unit 20A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 20A

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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