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Utah bison hunt BI6523

Bison - Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek/south (hunter's Choice) -Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2020 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 BI6523 in 2021, against 1,204 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 4; the division reported levels up to 24.

Reported in 2 of the division's published years, 2020 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
202124 bonus1000—
202122 bonus1000—
202121 bonus1000—
202120 bonus3000—
202119 bonus1000—
202118 bonus6000—
202117 bonus1000—
202116 bonus6000—
202115 bonus4000—
202114 bonus4000—
202113 bonus6000—
202112 bonus77000—
202111 bonus25000—
202110 bonus19000—
20219 bonus26000—
20218 bonus27000—
20217 bonus18000—
20216 bonus24000—
20215 bonus23000—
20214 bonus500112.0%
20213 bonus39000—
20212 bonus40000—
20211 bonus55000—
20210 bonus63000—

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

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