Unit D119 (Anchor)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer
Deer Hunt Area 119, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Anchor, covers about 439 square miles in Hot Springs County. It belongs to WGFD's Owl Creek/Meeteetse mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 78.8%, with 99 hunters taking 78 mule deer at about 5.4 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Build your own PDF hunt guide for Unit D119
Answer a few questions about your tag, your season and your rig, and the Field Intelligence Report builds a print-ready Wyoming Unit D119 guide around your hunt: three ranked spots with morning, afternoon and evening plays, a day-by-day plan, topo maps with every pin numbered, a camp and access plan, the legal and retrieval rules for this unit, shot discipline, a meat-care and pack-out plan, and a pre-trip checklist. Every coordinate sits on land recorded as public.
Free accounts get one report a year with the top spot unlocked. ProHunt Pro includes unlimited reports, all three spots, the full camp plan, and GPX/KML downloads for onX and Google Earth. Prefer to see one first? Open the builder and pick any unit.
Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D119
Deer Hunt Area 119, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Anchor, covers about 439 square miles in Hot Springs County. It belongs to WGFD's Owl Creek/Meeteetse mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 78.8%, with 99 hunters taking 78 mule deer at about 5.4 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Mule Deer in Deer Hunt Area 119
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 119 "Anchor". It runs to about 439 square miles, entirely in Hot Springs County. WGFD reports these mule deer as the Owl Creek/Meeteetse herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 116, 117, 118 and 120. The boundary and the harvest figures are WGFD's. The read of the country inside them is ours, and it says so where it starts.
The line: Gooseberry Creek, Grass Creek and Upper Cottonwood Creek
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 119 corner by corner. It starts where the divide between Gooseberry Creek and Grass Creek crosses Wyoming Highway 120. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 120, Hot Springs County Road 10 and Hot Springs County Road 1, and Gooseberry Creek, Grass Creek, Upper Cottonwood Creek and Hot Springs. It is the description your license is good inside, so it is worth reading once in full before you go. The full text is in Section 7 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.
Ground WGFD opens: Absaroka Front
Its Access Yes program enrolls a Hunter Management Area here that list deer among their species — Absaroka Front (112,869 acres). WGFD's 2026 regulations open Access Yes land only for the species and dates listed for each area, with each area's own rules on WGFD's site and no motorized travel unless WGFD says otherwise.
Wilderness inside the line: Washakie Wilderness
About 3% of deer hunt area 119 lies in the Washakie Wilderness. WGFD's 2026 regulations print the rule that matters there: no nonresident may hunt big game in a designated wilderness area unless accompanied by a licensed professional guide or a resident guide, with at least one guide for every two nonresident hunters. Inside the wilderness there are no roads, so every animal there comes out on your back or on a horse.
High ground inside the line: Dome Mountain, Washakie Needles and Cottonwood Peak
Named high points inside deer hunt area 119 include Dome Mountain at 12,445 feet, Washakie Needles at 12,165 feet, Cottonwood Peak at 10,910 feet, Sugar Loaf Mountain at 9,880 feet and Castle Rocks at 9,801 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: Carmichael Draw, Sanford Draw and Thompson Draw
Below them sit Carmichael Draw at 7,004 feet, Sanford Draw at 7,003 feet, Thompson Draw at 6,731 feet, Egbert Draw at 6,712 feet and Putney Flat at 6,142 feet. Those are the basins and bottoms of the area, and they are what you glass into from above.
Water: Wagonhound Spring and Pershal Spring
Named water inside the line includes Wagonhound Spring and Pershal Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Reading the land status
Named ground inside deer hunt area 119 runs from 5,387 feet to 12,445 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.
Unit D119 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Dome Mountain (12,445 ft), Cottonwood Peak (10,910 ft), Sugar Loaf Mountain (9,880 ft), Castle Rocks (9,801 ft)
Holding ground: Hess Creek Draw (7,176 ft), Crater Sink (6,107 ft), Spring Gulch (5,432 ft), Wagonhound Spring, Pershal Spring
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 Deer Hunt Area 119
Mule Deer Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 78.8% mule deer success in deer hunt area 119: 78 animals taken by 99 active hunters over 419 days of hunting, or 5.4 days per animal. By residency, residents 75% (57 taken by 76) and nonresidents 91.3% (21 taken by 23).
These are WGFD's own estimates from its hunter survey, for this hunt area and season only — not a statewide average. One season isn't a trend, so check the current report before you read one into it.
Mule Deer Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — General Type 1 antlered (resident) | 21 | 436 | 4.8% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 antlered (nonresident) | 0 | 52 | 0.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 2 antlered (resident) | 40 | 91 | 44.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 2 antlered (nonresident) | 1 | 24 | 4.2% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 3 either sex (resident) | 73 | 86 | 84.9% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 3 either sex (nonresident) | 4 | 5 | 80.0% | — |
Data from 2026 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.
Open in Draw Odds EngineWyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for mule deer in deer hunt area 119, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1, residents: 436 first-choice applicants for 21 licenses, 4.8% drawn
- Type 2, residents: 91 first-choice applicants for 40 licenses, 44% drawn
- Type 3, residents: 86 first-choice applicants for 73 licenses, 84.9% drawn
- Type 1, nonresidents: 52 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% drawn
- Type 2, nonresidents: 24 first-choice applicants for 1 license, 4.2% drawn
Wyoming residents draw mule deer licenses without preference points; nonresidents draw part of their quota on points, highest balance first (Chapter 44, Section 19), and the nonresident figures above are from WGFD's random draw. WGFD publishes no preference-point level at which a hunt draws, so none is given here. There are 1 more type-and-residency rows for this area in 2026. Every figure was checked against WGFD's demand-report PDFs on 2026-08-10.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Wyoming deer hunt area 119?
What is the mule deer success rate in deer hunt area 119?
What do you need besides a license to hunt deer hunt area 119?
What is the white-tailed deer success rate in deer hunt area 119?
Plan Your Hunt with ProHunt Pro
Unlock advanced tactics, the Tag-to-Trail Planner, AI hunt strategy assistant, and personalized camp and trip execution plans.
Upgrade to Pro — $49/yrSources & Verification
Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-25.
- Chapter 6 — Deer Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of deer hunt area 119, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · accessed 2026-10-25
- Deer 2025 Harvest Report — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunters, harvest, percent success and days per animal for mule deer in deer hunt area 119, The same by license type and residency · accessed 2026-10-25
- WGFD draw results and odds — demand reports 2021-2026 — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: First-choice applicants, licenses and percent drawn, by license type, residency and year · accessed 2026-08-10
- Chapter 44 — Regulation for Issuance of Licenses, Permits, Stamps, Tags, Preference Points and Competitive Raffle Chances — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Which licenses are drawn on preference points (Section 19), When preference points are deleted · accessed 2026-10-25
- 2026 Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunting Regulations — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Nonresident guide requirement in designated wilderness, Access Yes Walk-In and Hunter Management Area rules · accessed 2026-10-25
- WGFD ArcGIS feature services — hunt areas by species, CWD sampling areas, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas, Walk-In Hunting Areas — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Mapped outline of the hunt area, Herd unit and square miles, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas inside the area · accessed 2026-10-25
- TIGERweb State_County — Wyoming county boundaries (used only to measure which counties a hunt area lies in) — U.S. Census Bureau · supports: Which counties the hunt area lies in, and in what share · accessed 2026-10-25