Wyoming Whitetail Deer

Unit D124 (Emblem)

Wyoming Hunting Guide — Whitetail Deer

Deer Hunt Area 124, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Emblem, covers about 501 square miles in Big Horn County. It belongs to WGFD's Bighorn Basin white-tailed deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put white-tailed deer success here at 27.7%, with 358 hunters taking 99 white-tailed deer at about 20.4 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Whitetail Deer Hunting in Unit D124

Where to Find White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 124

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 124 "Emblem". It runs to about 501 square miles, entirely in Big Horn County. WGFD reports these white-tailed deer as the Bighorn Basin herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47 and 50 and 24 more. 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: Antelope Creek, Elk Creek and Dorsey Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 124 corner by corner. It starts in the town of Greybull. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 16-20, B.L.M. Road 1222, Park County Road 3X and Park County Road 3L, and Antelope Creek, Elk Creek, Dorsey Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek. That is a legal description, not a habitat map, and it is the text a warden reads you against. The full text is in Section 7 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 124s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 124 also belongs to its elk hunt area 124. None of it shares a county with this one. A license is good only in the hunt area of its own species, so this page is about the deer area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.

Ground WGFD opens: Big Horn 61 and Big Horn 59

WGFD also lists 16 Walk-In Areas covering about 7,717 acres open for deer, among them Big Horn 61, Big Horn 59 and Big Horn 60. 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.

High ground inside the line: Bridger Butte, Table Mountain and Emblem Bench

Named high points inside deer hunt area 124 include Bridger Butte at 4,966 feet, Table Mountain at 4,744 feet, Emblem Bench at 4,534 feet, Gould Butte at 4,465 feet and Three Sisters at 4,405 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. White-tailed deer on farm country live in the cover strips between fields and feed out at the edges of the day.

Holding ground: Horseshoe Draw, White Gulch and Fenton Draw

Below them sit Horseshoe Draw at 4,034 feet, White Gulch at 4,013 feet, Fenton Draw at 4,703 feet, Bighorn Basin at 4,351 feet and Emblem Draw at 4,218 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside deer hunt area 124 runs from 4,013 feet to 4,966 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit D124 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Bridger Butte (4,966 ft), Table Mountain (4,744 ft), Gould Butte (4,465 ft), Three Sisters (4,405 ft)

Holding ground: Emblem Draw (4,218 ft), South Fork Kellerman Gulch (4,101 ft), Walk-In Area Big Horn 26, Walk-In Area Big Horn 22, Walk-In Area Big Horn 44

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 White-Tailed Deer in Deer Hunt Area 124

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 358 hunters took 99 white-tailed deer in deer hunt area 124 — 27.7% success, at about 20.4 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 26.5% and nonresidents 33.9% that year. Fewer than half the hunters here filled a license, which makes scouting time the difference between the two groups. The plan: find the trails between bedding cover and feed, then sit downwind of them at first and last light.

License types WGFD reported in deer hunt area 124 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the white-tailed deer harvest in deer hunt area 124 down by license type.

Type 3 — 85 licenses in use, 25.9% success, 30.7 days per animal
Type 6 — 19 licenses in use, 36.8% success, 9.3 days per animal
Type 8 — 107 licenses in use, 30.8% success, 19.2 days per animal
General — 250 licenses in use, 14.8% success, 17.5 days per animal

What each type allows — antlered, antlerless, archery-only, where it is valid — and this year's dates are set area by area in Section 2 of WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6, so read the line for the license you hold rather than assume it matches another area's.

Glassing from Gould Butte, Three Sisters and Bridger Butte

Take a position on one of Gould Butte (4,465 ft), Three Sisters (4,405 ft), Bridger Butte (4,966 ft) and Table Mountain (4,744 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, and expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. November bucks travel and check doe groups in daylight, which is when a stand on a travel route pays.

Hunting the Access Yes ground

Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas are private land opened through WGFD's Access Yes program, and the 2026 regulations open each one only for the species and dates listed for it. Read the area's page on WGFD's site before you go — its rules, its dates and whether it needs anything more than your license. Anything else on that land, or any species not listed, needs the landowner's permission, so treat the Access Yes line as the edge of what you were given.

Reading the Bighorn Basin herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates white-tailed deer by herd unit, and deer hunt area 124 shares the Bighorn Basin herd unit with deer hunt areas 35, 37, 39, 40, 41 and 46 and 26 more. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

The way in: U.S. Highway 16-20, B.L.M. Road 1222 and Park County Road 3X

We hold no road inventory for deer hunt area 124, so the only routes we can name are the ones WGFD draws its boundary with: U.S. Highway 16-20, B.L.M. Road 1222, Park County Road 3X, Park County Road 3L and U.S. Highway 310. Those are its edges, not its interior — where you leave the pavement, not what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; country you can only reach from its rim rewards whoever leaves the truck there.

Wyoming rules that decide your day

Summarised from WGFD 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

Wyoming has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground. Travel stays on designated routes.

Tagging

Attach the carcass coupon to the animal before it is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached.

Leaving meat

Wanton waste of edible meat is a serious offence in Wyoming.

Where you may not shoot

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

Whitetail 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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Whitetail Deer Success Rates

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 27.7% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 124: 99 animals taken by 358 active hunters over 2,024 days of hunting, or 20.4 days per animal. By residency, residents 26.5% (80 taken by 302) and nonresidents 33.9% (19 taken by 56).

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.

Whitetail Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General either sex (resident)	80	112	71.4%	—
Rifle — General either sex (nonresident)	14	1	100.0%	—

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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The white-tailed deer draw figures we hold for Wyoming have not been checked against WGFD's demand reports, so none are printed here. WGFD's draw results and odds page has the demand report for every hunt area and license type.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Water

No named water source falls inside the hunt area in our water layer, so plan on carrying water or finding it on a scouting trip.

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Road Conditions

WGFD's boundary for the hunt area follows U.S. Highway 16-20, B.L.M. Road 1222, Park County Road 3X and Park County Road 3L. That is the edge, not a promise of access inside — check a current motor-vehicle-use map before you drive in.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 4,013 to 4,966 ft. Named heights only — the ground between and below them can run lower.

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Hunting Pressure

WGFD's 2025 survey counted about 358 white-tailed deer hunters spending 2,024 days here.

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Permit Notes

Season dates and license limitations: WGFD 2026 Chapter 6, Section 2.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Wyoming deer hunt area 124?

Deer Hunt Area 124 (Emblem) covers about 501 square miles in Big Horn County. WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 124 corner by corner. It starts in the town of Greybull. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 16-20, B.L.M. Road 1222, Park County Road 3X and Park County Road 3L, and Antelope Creek, Elk Creek, Dorsey Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek.

What is the white-tailed deer success rate in deer hunt area 124?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 27.7% white-tailed deer success in deer hunt area 124, with 358 hunters taking 99 white-tailed deer at about 20.4 days of hunting per animal. That is WGFD's figure for this hunt area, not a statewide average.

Is deer hunt area 124 the same ground as elk hunt area 124?

No. WGFD numbers hunt areas separately for each species, so elk hunt area 124 is a different piece of ground with its own boundary and its own page. A license is valid only in the hunt area of its own species.

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