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Utah · Bison · Limited entry

Utah bison hunt BI6500

Antelope Island Bison - Antelope Island - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2016 to 2025. Every figure comes from a Division of Wildlife Resources report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2025 draw did

Utah issued 2 permits on hunt BI6500 in 2025, against 3,249 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 1; the division reported levels up to 30.

Reported in 10 of the division's published years, 2016 to 2025.

Residency

Draw results by point level

Every figure here counts first-choice applications only. That is the division's own statement on the page it publishes these reports from: they "only reflect hunters' first-choice selections." Utah runs five choices and publishes odds for none of the other four, because they are affected by residency, youth status, group applications, Dedicated Hunter selections and weapon type. So a hunt you would rank second or lower is not described by anything below.

Permits are drawn in two passes: a point-weighted pass and a random pass, and they sum to the total. Utah publishes no quota, so there is no permits-available figure to show — only permits issued. A dash in the odds column is the division's ownN/A, meaning no permits were issued at that level; it is an absent measurement, not zero odds. Point levels where nobody applied and nothing was drawn are omitted — the division prints every level for every hunt, and roughly three quarters of them are empty.
YearPointsEligible applicantsPermits — point passPermits — random passPermits totalSuccess
202111 bonus1000—
20213 bonus1000—
201722 bonus1000—
201720 bonus1000—
201719 bonus1000—
201718 bonus4000—
201717 bonus2000—
201716 bonus4000—
201715 bonus9000—
201714 bonus8000—
201713 bonus2000—
201712 bonus7000—
201711 bonus12000—
201710 bonus21000—
20179 bonus18000—
20178 bonus2040110.5%
20177 bonus100000—
20176 bonus84000—
20175 bonus98000—
20174 bonus101000—
20173 bonus128000—
20172 bonus117000—
20171 bonus126000—
20170 bonus207000—
201621 bonus2000—
201619 bonus1000—
201617 bonus5000—
201616 bonus1000—
201615 bonus4000—
201614 bonus4000—
201613 bonus8000—
201612 bonus2000—
201611 bonus5000—
201610 bonus9000—
20169 bonus23000—
20168 bonus16000—
20167 bonus226000—
20166 bonus112000—
20165 bonus92000—
20164 bonus105000—
20163 bonus74000—
20162 bonus111000—
20161 bonus122000—
20160 bonus1400110.7%

Success is permits issued divided by eligible applicants at that level. The division also prints a 1 in N ratio, rounded to one decimal — at these small numbers that rounding turns a 95% draw into 1 in 1.0, so the figure here is that quotient computed exactly rather than read back off the ratio. It describes that year's draw and nothing beyond it.

Sources for this hunt

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