The Wyoming Disabled Hunters (WDH) 2025 hunt application permit opens December 1st, 2024, 8 am MST and closes January 25th, 2025, 5 pm MST. Please read ALL the information below and obtain ALL the permits for which you qualify.
If you already have your disabled hunter permit and season extension permit (if you qualified for it), those permits are lifetime permits, so use your existing permits rather than obtain new permits. If you don’t have one or both permits, you MUST FIRST obtain those permits through Wyoming G&F BEFORE completing our “Hunt Application” and, if desired, the “Financial Aid Application.”
- Obtain a Wyoming Disabled Hunter permit from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Hunters that qualify for a season extension permit must also obtain that permit as well. Veterans with a 100% VA service-connected diability rating automatically qualify for a season extension permit.
- Complete our WDH Online application by carefully following the instructions appearing on the application.
- If needed, one can complete our Financial Aid application.
The Wyoming Disabled Hunters (WDH) 2025 hunt application permit opens December 1st, 2024, 8 am MST and closes January 25th, 2025, 5 pm MST.
You can apply for one, two, or all three species offered: antelope, deer, or elk.
You need to prioritize your hunts as #1, #2, and/or #3. (To clarify, one can hunt only a single species in a year with WDH.) It’s all done with the same single online application. If you are interested in just a single species and don’t have a strong desire for a 2nd or 3rd choice, then specify the single choice. If you are almost equally interested in any of the three species, list them in priority order. Don’t list a choice unless you have an interest in hunting it.
You must submit to Wyoming G&F your original disabled permit applications as they need the applicant’s and doctor’s original signatures on each application.
As of Jan 1st, 2023, Wyoming G&F combined the disabled hunter permit and shoot-from-vehicle permit into one permit. A veteran (70% or higher disability rating) should use the the disabled veteran permit, and can also apply for a season extension permit in the same application if their VA rating is 100%.
Disabled-Veteran-Permit.pdf (wyo.gov) or Disabled Hunter permit (wyo.gov) is required to determine eligibility for all our hunts. You are eligible if you are:
- Applicants who are 70% or higher service connected disabled veterans. Use this permit.
- Permanently unable to walk at all times without the use of a wheelchair, walker or scooter.
- Restricted by lung disease to the extent the person’s forced expiratory volume for one (1) second, when measured by a spirometer, is less than thirty-five (35) percent predicted, or arterial oxygen tension is less than fifty-five (55) mm/Hg on room air at rest.
- Have a cardiac condition to the extent that your functional limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV, according to standards established by the American Heart Association.
- Have a permanent physical impairment that prevents you at all times from holding or shooting a firearm or bow in hand.
- Have central visual acuity that permanently doesn't exceed 20/200 in the better eye with corrective lenses, or the widest diameter of the visual field is not greater than 20 degrees
The Hunting Season Extension Permit allows permit holders to hunt up to five days before the season officially starts. Applicants qualify for this permit if they have:
- A central visual acuity disability.
- Upper extremity disability.
- Permanently paralyzed over at least fifty (50%) of your body.
- Are considered a quadriplegic or paraplegic
- Physical disability so as to be permanently confined to a wheelchair (or similar device.)
Your disabled hunter, season extension and shoot-from-vehicle permits are valid for a lifetime in the state of Wyoming.