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Utah bison hunt BI6518

Bison - Book Cliffs (hunter's Choice) - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2019 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 16 permits on hunt BI6518 in 2019, against 1,205 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 1; the division reported levels up to 23.

This hunt appears in the division's reports for 2019 only. Utah renumbers and retires hunts between cycles and publishes no crosswalk between an old code and a new one, so this site does not map one onto another — a renumbered hunt is not necessarily the same hunt. What follows is the record of the one year it was drawn.

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
201921 bonus210150.0%
201920 bonus1000—
201918 bonus1000—
201916 bonus5000—
201914 bonus1000—
201913 bonus6000—
201912 bonus2000—
201911 bonus5000—
201910 bonus870111.1%
20199 bonus31000—
20198 bonus27000—
20197 bonus33000—
20196 bonus37000—
20195 bonus31000—
20194 bonus35000—
20193 bonus30000—
20192 bonus52000—
20191 bonus61000—
20190 bonus91000—

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

  • 19_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28

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