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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 130

Big Sandy · Deer area 130 · Wyoming

Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Deer area 130Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

91%

403,065 ac of 440,594 ac

Landlocked public

3 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

27%

of public · 110,021 ac

mule deer · 2025

19.6% success

32 taken by 163 hunters · 976 days afield

32 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 19% · NR 100% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 31% → 20%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here

5 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 130

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation6,580–13,040 ft
Median elevation7,160 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,580 ft13,040 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 17%
E 19%
S 31%
W 33%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Nearby deer deer areas

Boulder · Deer area 138 · 92% publicTable Mountain · Deer area 92 · 87% publicSteamboat · Deer area 131 · 76% publicTwin Creek · Deer area 94 · 84% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.