Idaho Elk Mule Deer

Unit 36 (Sawtooth Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer

Unit 36 lies in Blaine and Custer counties and covers about 1,048 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 6,113 to 10,785 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 27%. Federal land covers about 99% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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6,488–10,357 ft

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Elk Hunting in Unit 36

Where to Find Elk in Unit 36

What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for unit 36 is a boundary, not a elk map. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Blaine and Custer counties. It runs to about 1,048 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 36

Idaho Fish and Game runs its general elk seasons by elk management zone rather than unit by unit, and puts unit 36 in the Sawtooth Zone, so the zone's tag rules are the ones that apply here.

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Yankee Fork and Warm Springs

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 36 in Blaine and Custer counties on a line that runs along Salmon River, Yankee Fork, Warm Springs and Beaver Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Patterson Peak, Sawtooth Range and Thompson Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Patterson Peak at 10,785 feet, Sawtooth Range at 10,706 feet, Thompson Peak at 10,670 feet, Decker Peak at 10,659 feet and Mount Cramer at 10,658 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: Grand Prize Gulch, Dry Canyon and Mill Gulch

Below them sit Grand Prize Gulch at 7,757 feet, Dry Canyon at 7,603 feet, Mill Gulch at 7,479 feet, Mountain Home Canyon at 7,470 feet and Sawmill Canyon at 7,410 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls and Bridal Veil Falls

The water inside the unit line comes to 518 mapped stream reaches, 69 lakes, 800 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 17%, BLM 15% 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 36 runs from 6,113 feet to 10,785 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit 36 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,488–10,357 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,795 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,048 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

800 tanks
2 springs
518 stream segments
69 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: Patterson Peak (10,785 ft), Sawtooth Range (10,706 ft), Decker Peak (10,659 ft), Mount Cramer (10,658 ft)

Holding ground: Antz Basin (9,510 ft), Iron Basin (9,392 ft), Galena Summit (8,702 ft), Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls

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 36

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 36 at 27% 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 Watson Peak, Sevy Peak and Blackmon Peak

Take a position on one of Watson Peak (10,410 ft), Sevy Peak (10,369 ft), Blackmon Peak (10,280 ft) and The Arrowhead (10,225 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 518 mapped stream reaches and 800 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 70/27°F, Oct 56/21°F and Nov 39/11°F. By Nov the lows are around 11°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 1 in. in Sep, 1.6 in. in Oct and 2.1 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: ID 75 and Loon Creek Road

ID 75 and ID 21 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. National Forest Development Road 454 and FR 197 need clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. 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 Patterson Peak, Sawtooth Range, Decker Peak and Mount Cramer as places to see from, and Antz Basin, Iron Basin, Galena Summit and Lady Face Falls 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

1,048 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 Stanley, about 3 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 4,672 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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 36

Named routes and what they need

ID 75 — 10.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Loon Creek Road — 5.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
ID 21 — 3.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
NFSR 008 — 3.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
National Forest Development Road 454 — 2.6 mi · High-clearance
FR 197 — 2.5 mi · High-clearance

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

Stanley — 3.2 mi · lodging
Challis — 37.7 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
North Challis — 38.6 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Sun Valley — 44 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Ketchum — 44.5 mi · groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

Camp Smokey Bear
Redfish Inlet Campground
Riverside Campground
Stanley Lake Campground · reservable
Banner Creek Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan27° / 0° · 1.8" precip
Aug80° / 34° · 0.5" precip
Sep70° / 27° · 1" precip
Oct56° / 21° · 1.6" precip
Nov39° / 11° · 2.1" precip
Dec26° / 1° · 2.2" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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

Rifle27%

Archery20%

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 36 at 27% — 171 animals taken by 623 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 36. 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 36

Unit 36 lies in Blaine and Custer counties and covers about 1,048 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 6,113 to 10,785 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 29%. Federal land covers about 99% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 36

Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 36 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Blaine and Custer counties. It runs to about 1,048 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 36

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 36, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live.

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Yankee Fork and Warm Springs

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 36 in Blaine and Custer counties on a line that runs along Salmon River, Yankee Fork, Warm Springs and Beaver Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Williams Peak, Snowyside Peak and Horstmann Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Williams Peak at 10,594 feet, Snowyside Peak at 10,568 feet, Horstmann Peak at 10,446 feet, Watson Peak at 10,410 feet and Sevy Peak at 10,369 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: Cape Horn Summit, The Meadows and Jakes Gulch

Below them sit Cape Horn Summit at 7,309 feet, The Meadows at 7,250 feet, Jakes Gulch at 7,246 feet, Little Basin at 7,128 feet and Eureka Gulch at 7,097 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls and Bridal Veil Falls

Reading the land status

Unit 36 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,488–10,357 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,795 ft ; peaks can run higher.
1,048 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

800 tanks
2 springs
518 stream segments
69 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: Patterson Peak (10,785 ft), Sawtooth Range (10,706 ft), Decker Peak (10,659 ft), Mount Cramer (10,658 ft)

Holding ground: Antz Basin (9,510 ft), Iron Basin (9,392 ft), Galena Summit (8,702 ft), Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls

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 36

Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest estimates put deer success in unit 36 at 29% 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 36

Idaho Fish and Game's 2026 rules list 2 controlled hunts for mule deer on unit 36 under its own number.

Hunt 1025 — antlered deer, 5 tags, Sep 1–Nov 30
Hunt 1165 — outfitter allocation deer, antlered deer only, 1 tag, Sep 1–Nov 30

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 36 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 Baron Peak, Heyburn Mountain and Packrat Peak

Take a position on one of Baron Peak (10,214 ft), Heyburn Mountain (10,195 ft), Packrat Peak (10,178 ft) and Parks Peak (10,163 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 518 mapped stream reaches and 800 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: ID 75 and Loon Creek Road

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 36

Named routes and what they need

ID 75 — 10.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Loon Creek Road — 5.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
ID 21 — 3.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
NFSR 008 — 3.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
National Forest Development Road 454 — 2.6 mi · High-clearance
FR 197 — 2.5 mi · High-clearance

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

Stanley — 3.2 mi · lodging
Challis — 37.7 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
North Challis — 38.6 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Sun Valley — 44 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Ketchum — 44.5 mi · groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

Camp Smokey Bear
Redfish Inlet Campground
Riverside Campground
Stanley Lake Campground · reservable
Banner Creek Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan27° / 0° · 1.8" precip
Aug80° / 34° · 0.5" precip
Sep70° / 27° · 1" precip
Oct56° / 21° · 1.6" precip
Nov39° / 11° · 2.1" precip
Dec26° / 1° · 2.2" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% 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 36 at 29% — 270 animals taken by 923 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)	5	145	3.0%	—
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident)	0	23	0.0%	—

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 36, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

Hunt 1025 — residents 145 applicants for 5 tags, 3% drawn; nonresidents 23 applicants for 0 tags, 0% 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

52 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Camp Smokey Bear, Redfish Inlet Campground and Riverside Campground.

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Road Conditions

ID 75, Loon Creek Road and ID 21 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 15 mi paved, 10 mi gravel and 2 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features from 6,113 to 10,785 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 70/27°F, 1 in.; Oct 56/21°F, 1.6 in.; Nov 39/11°F, 2.1 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Stanley (3 mi), Challis (38 mi), North Challis (39 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 36?

Unit 36 lies in Blaine and Custer counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 36 on a line that runs along Salmon River, Yankee Fork, Warm Springs and Beaver Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It covers about 1,048 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 36?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 36 at 27% 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 36 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 36 are at Stanley, about 3 miles from the unit's centre, with Challis at about 38 miles. There are also 52 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 36?

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 36 at 29% 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 Sawtooth 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 36 · 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 36 — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24

Unit 36 (Sawtooth Zone)

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Elk Hunting in Unit 36

Where to Find Elk in Unit 36

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up elk hunting in unit 36

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Yankee Fork and Warm Springs

High ground inside the line: Patterson Peak, Sawtooth Range and Thompson Peak

Holding ground: Grand Prize Gulch, Dry Canyon and Mill Gulch

Water: Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls and Bridal Veil Falls

Reading the land status

Unit 36 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 36

Elk Success Rates

Elk Draw Odds

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 36

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 36

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 36

The lines of the unit: Salmon River, Yankee Fork and Warm Springs

High ground inside the line: Williams Peak, Snowyside Peak and Horstmann Peak

Holding ground: Cape Horn Summit, The Meadows and Jakes Gulch

Water: Lady Face Falls, Goat Falls and Bridal Veil Falls

Reading the land status

Unit 36 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 36

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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