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Utah · Bison · Limited entry

Utah bison hunt BI6508

Bison - Book Cliffs (cow Only) - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2017 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 24 permits on hunt BI6508 in 2019, against 263 eligible applicants. Permits reached applicants holding no bonus points at all.

Reported in 3 of the division's published years, 2017 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
201917 bonus1101100.0%
201916 bonus1101100.0%
201914 bonus1000—
201912 bonus1000—
201911 bonus1000—
201910 bonus12000—
20199 bonus2000—
20198 bonus2000—
20197 bonus1000—
20196 bonus1000—
20195 bonus4000—
20194 bonus3000—
20193 bonus5000—
20192 bonus8000—
20191 bonus110119.1%
20190 bonus23000—
201814 bonus1101100.0%
201812 bonus1000—
201811 bonus1000—
201810 bonus2000—
20189 bonus170115.9%
20188 bonus701114.3%
20187 bonus3000—
20186 bonus2000—
20185 bonus6000—
20184 bonus3000—
20183 bonus10000—
20182 bonus11000—
20181 bonus11000—
20180 bonus29000—
201713 bonus1000—
201712 bonus1000—
201710 bonus1011100.0%
20179 bonus1000—
20178 bonus19000—
20177 bonus6000—
20176 bonus4000—
20175 bonus6000—
20174 bonus8000—
20173 bonus6000—
20172 bonus14000—
20171 bonus14000—
20170 bonus28000—

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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