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Utah bison hunt BI6526

Bison (hunter’s Choice) - Book Cliffs, Wild Horse Bench (hunter's Choice) -Closed -Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2021 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 0 permits on hunt BI6526 in 2021, against 440 eligible applicants. The division issued no permit at any point level that year.

This hunt appears in the division's reports for 2021 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
202118 bonus1000—
202117 bonus1000—
202116 bonus1000—
202115 bonus1000—
202112 bonus22000—
202111 bonus16000—
202110 bonus16000—
20219 bonus9000—
20218 bonus12000—
20217 bonus12000—
20216 bonus12000—
20215 bonus16000—
20214 bonus22000—
20213 bonus22000—
20212 bonus24000—
20211 bonus38000—
20210 bonus52000—

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

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See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the application deadlines.