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Utah bison hunt BI6501

Bison - Book Cliffs (hunter's Choice) - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2016 to 2019. Every figure comes from a Division of Wildlife Resources report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2019 draw did

Utah issued 9 permits on hunt BI6501 in 2019, against 1,654 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 3; the division reported levels up to 23.

Reported in 4 of the division's published years, 2016 to 2019.

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
201922 bonus3000—
201921 bonus2000—
201920 bonus4000—
201919 bonus4000—
201918 bonus3000—
201917 bonus8000—
201916 bonus5000—
201915 bonus11000—
201914 bonus4000—
201913 bonus8000—
201912 bonus8000—
201911 bonus13000—
201910 bonus137000—
20199 bonus67000—
20198 bonus53000—
20197 bonus55000—
20196 bonus590111.7%
20195 bonus69000—
20194 bonus67000—
20193 bonus70000—
20192 bonus109000—
20191 bonus120000—
20190 bonus177000—
201822 bonus1101100.0%
201821 bonus4000—
201820 bonus2000—
201819 bonus6000—
201818 bonus2000—
201817 bonus5000—
201816 bonus10000—
201815 bonus7000—
201814 bonus8000—
201813 bonus7000—
201812 bonus7000—
201811 bonus15000—
201810 bonus15000—
20189 bonus2710110.4%
20188 bonus1140110.9%
20187 bonus91000—
20186 bonus103000—
20185 bonus94000—
20184 bonus96000—
20183 bonus93000—
20182 bonus134000—
20181 bonus197000—
20180 bonus190000—
201720 bonus1000—
201719 bonus4000—
201718 bonus9000—
201717 bonus6000—
201716 bonus7000—
201715 bonus7000—
201714 bonus6000—
201713 bonus11000—
201712 bonus10000—
201711 bonus13000—
201710 bonus11000—
20179 bonus16000—
20178 bonus276000—
20177 bonus126000—
20176 bonus680111.5%
20175 bonus93000—
20174 bonus75000—
20173 bonus83000—
20172 bonus87000—
20171 bonus143000—
20170 bonus253000—
201618 bonus1000—
201617 bonus3000—
201616 bonus2000—
201615 bonus3000—
201614 bonus6000—
201613 bonus8000—
201612 bonus4000—
201611 bonus6000—
201610 bonus6000—
20169 bonus5000—
20168 bonus6000—
20167 bonus147000—
20166 bonus73000—
20165 bonus41000—
20164 bonus49000—
20163 bonus53000—
20162 bonus69000—
20161 bonus630111.6%
20160 bonus116000—

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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