Utah Mule Deer

Unit Blind Springs

Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer

Unit Blind Springs is a hunt unit. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Blind Springs

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Blind Springs

UDWR publishes no per-unit account of mule deer in unit Blind Springs, so what follows is a read of the ground inside the unit line. It runs to about 8 square miles.

Blind Springs is private land, not public ground

Blind Springs is a Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit — private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, not public country you can walk onto. UDWR requires a CWMU to hold at least 5,000 contiguous acres to manage deer, pronghorn or turkey, so the unit is one block of ground under one operator rather than a patchwork. This one covers about 8 square miles by UDWR's own polygon. Your permit is valid on this CWMU and nowhere else — UDWR states you may hunt only on the CWMU printed on the permit. So the question is not which drainage to start in. It is whether you can get a permit at all, and then what the operator lets you hunt.

What is published about unit Blind Springs, and what is not

No named summit, basin or mapped water source falls inside this unit at all, and no agency access property either. That is the finding. Ground this size held privately is farmed and grazed rather than mapped, and the hunt starts as a conversation with a landowner rather than a route. What the unit does have is 8 square miles of it, and the mule deer living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Before you apply: who owns this unit

A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land.

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How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit Blind Springs

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Blind Springs at rifle 25%. 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.

Getting on the ground here

There are two ways onto a CWMU and they are not the same door. A Utah resident can apply in UDWR's public drawing or take a voucher from the landowner or operator; a nonresident cannot enter the drawing at all and can only get a voucher directly from the operator. UDWR requires the unit to give public hunters opportunity comparable to private hunters, and to make the same acreage available to both — but the operator still sets the rules you hunt under, and UDWR notes a CWMU may limit how many companions you bring. That makes the first call of the season a phone call, not a scouting trip. Ask what the unit's rules are, where you may hunt inside it, what access is provided and what it costs, before you commit to a season. Harvest reporting is not optional and does not depend on success: UDWR requires a report within 30 days of the hunt ending, whether or not you took an animal. Everything below is the ground inside that line. On a CWMU it is background to the conversation with the operator rather than a plan you can execute on your own.

Finding a view in unit Blind Springs

No named high ground falls inside this unit, which changes the method rather than ruling it out. Use the edges instead of the elevation — a field margin, a shelterbelt, the lip of a draw. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat. Cover ground slowly and stop more often than feels sensible.

What we can't tell you

A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land. Settle access before the season rather than during it. We have no verified map pins for this unit yet — a gap on our side, not a statement about the unit.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR 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 official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

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

Rifle25%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Blind Springs that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	1	10	10.0%	—
Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (resident)	1	19	5.3%	—
Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for mule deer in unit Blind Springs, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, CWMU, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 19 applicants for 1 licences, 5.3% drawn, no bonus points needed

No bonus points were needed for the hunts above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Blind Springs?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Blind Springs at rifle 25% by weapon. 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.

Cooperative Wildlife Management Units — programme rules (administrative rule R657-37) — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: CWMUs are private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, Minimum 5,000 contiguous acres for deer, pronghorn or turkey; 10,000 for elk or moose, Residents may apply in the public drawing or take an operator voucher; nonresidents may only take a voucher, A CWMU permit is valid only on the CWMU printed on it, Public hunters must get opportunity and acreage comparable to private hunters, Harvest must be reported within 30 days of the hunt, whether or not an animal was taken · accessed 2026-10-24
UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the CWMU, UDWR's private-land and trust-land note, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24

Unit Blind Springs

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Blind Springs

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Blind Springs

Blind Springs is private land, not public ground

What is published about unit Blind Springs, and what is not

Before you apply: who owns this unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit Blind Springs

Getting on the ground here

Finding a view in unit Blind Springs

What we can't tell you

Utah rules that decide your day

Legal shooting hours

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Leaving meat

Where you may not shoot

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Shots to refuse

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

Water

Road Conditions

Terrain Difficulty

Nearest Town

Frequently Asked Questions

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