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Utah bison hunt BI6533

Bison Muzzleloader (cow Only) - Book Cliffs, Little Creek/south - Muzzleloader. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2022 to 2023. Every figure comes from a Division of Wildlife Resources report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2023 draw did

Utah issued 15 permits on hunt BI6533 in 2023, against 153 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 2; the division reported levels up to 18.

Reported in 2 of the division's published years, 2022 to 2023.

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
202318 bonus1101100.0%
202315 bonus1000—
202314 bonus5000—
202312 bonus2000—
202311 bonus3000—
20239 bonus5000—
20238 bonus5000—
20237 bonus4000—
20236 bonus2000—
20235 bonus501120.0%
20234 bonus9000—
20233 bonus5000—
20232 bonus4000—
20231 bonus11000—
20230 bonus15000—
202216 bonus210150.0%
202214 bonus2000—
202213 bonus11000—
202212 bonus4000—
202211 bonus5000—
202210 bonus1000—
20229 bonus201150.0%
20228 bonus5000—
20227 bonus6000—
20226 bonus4000—
20225 bonus9000—
20224 bonus8000—
20223 bonus14000—
20222 bonus14000—
20221 bonus8000—
20220 bonus14000—

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

  • 23_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28
  • 22_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28

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