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Utah bison hunt BI6520

Bison - Book Cliffs (cow Only) - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2019 to 2021. Every figure comes from a Division of Wildlife Resources report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2021 draw did

Utah issued 4 permits on hunt BI6520 in 2021, against 386 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 1; the division reported levels up to 20.

Reported in 3 of the division's published years, 2019 to 2021.

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
202120 bonus1000—
202117 bonus1000—
202116 bonus1000—
202114 bonus1000—
202113 bonus2000—
202112 bonus14000—
202111 bonus9000—
202110 bonus1000—
20219 bonus2000—
20218 bonus3000—
20217 bonus6000—
20216 bonus7000—
20215 bonus3000—
20214 bonus7000—
20213 bonus13000—
20212 bonus15000—
20211 bonus180115.6%
20210 bonus8000—
201917 bonus1101100.0%
201913 bonus1101100.0%
201912 bonus1000—
201911 bonus2000—
201910 bonus10000—
20199 bonus2000—
20198 bonus1011100.0%
20196 bonus3000—
20195 bonus4000—
20194 bonus4000—
20193 bonus2000—
20192 bonus6000—
20191 bonus17000—
20190 bonus15000—

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

  • 21_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28
  • 20_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28
  • 19_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28

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