Unit D130 (Big Sandy)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Deer Hunt Area 130, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Big Sandy, covers about 688 square miles in Sublette, Sweetwater and Fremont counties. It belongs to WGFD's Sublette mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 19.6%, with 163 hunters taking 32 mule deer at about 30.5 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit D130
Deer Hunt Area 130, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Big Sandy, covers about 688 square miles in Sublette, Sweetwater and Fremont counties. It belongs to WGFD's Sublette mule deer herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put mule deer success here at 19.6%, with 163 hunters taking 32 mule deer at about 30.5 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 130
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names deer hunt area 130 "Big Sandy". It runs to about 688 square miles, in Sublette (77%), Sweetwater (13%) and Fremont (8%) counties. WGFD reports these mule deer as the Sublette herd unit, which also takes in deer hunt areas 131, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 150 and 151 and 4 more. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the mule deer live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.
The line: Big Sandy Reservoir, Big Sandy River and Continental Divide
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 6 walks the line around deer hunt area 130 corner by corner. It starts at the town of Farson and U.S. Highway 191. On the way round it follows U.S. Highway 191, Sweetwater County Road 28 and Wyoming Highway 28, and Big Sandy Reservoir, Big Sandy River, Continental Divide and Sweetwater River. Read it as the legal edge of your license rather than as a hint about animals. 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 130s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 130 also belongs to its elk hunt area 130. 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.
Wilderness inside the line: Bridger Wilderness
About 9% of deer hunt area 130 lies in the Bridger 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: Temple Peak, East Temple Peak and Dog Tooth Peak
Named high points inside deer hunt area 130 include Temple Peak at 12,893 feet, East Temple Peak at 12,583 feet, Dog Tooth Peak at 12,467 feet, Big Sandy Mountain at 12,382 feet and Mount Nystrom at 12,274 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: Long Draw, Alkali Draw and Long Draw
Below them sit Long Draw at 7,072 feet, Alkali Draw at 7,070 feet, Long Draw at 7,007 feet, Eden Valley at 6,709 feet and Bear Trap at 8,373 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.
Water: Halls Meadow Spring, Spicer Well Number 2 and Monument Spring
Named water inside the line includes Halls Meadow Spring, Spicer Well Number 2, Monument Spring and Chicken Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Unit D130 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Temple Peak (12,893 ft), Dog Tooth Peak (12,467 ft), Mount Nystrom (12,274 ft), Haystack Mountain (11,946 ft)
Holding ground: Bear Trap (8,373 ft), South Pass (7,557 ft), Monument Draw (7,171 ft), Halls Meadow Spring, Spicer Well Number 2
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 130
Mule Deer Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 19.6% mule deer success in deer hunt area 130: 32 animals taken by 163 active hunters over 976 days of hunting, or 30.5 days per animal. By residency, residents 19.1% (31 taken by 162) and nonresidents 100% (1 taken by 1).
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) | 4 | 490 | 0.8% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 antlered (nonresident) | 0 | 49 | 0.0% | — |
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 130, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1, residents: 490 first-choice applicants for 4 licenses, 0.8% drawn
- Type 1, nonresidents: 49 first-choice applicants for 0 licenses, 0% 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. Every figure was checked against WGFD's demand-report PDFs on 2026-08-10.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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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 130, 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 130, 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
- Chapter 2 — General Hunting Regulation (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Mandatory CWD sample submission (Section 17) · accessed 2026-10-25
- 2026 Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunting Regulations — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Nonresident guide requirement in designated wilderness · 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, 2026 CWD mandatory and priority sampling areas · 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