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Utah deer with 16 preference points

What applicants holding exactly 16 preference points actually drew, across every Utah deer hunt that reported at this level. Ranked by observed success, best first. This is a record of past draws, not a prediction of the next.

Preference points only. Utah's limited-entry and once-in-a-lifetime draws use bonus points, which are weighted lottery tickets rather than places in a queue. There is no honest "what does 16 bonus points get you" answer, so this page does not attempt one. Those hunts are on the deer index with their full ladders.

What 16 points did

7 Utah deer hunts reported applicants holding exactly 16 preference points, covering 12 applicants in total. Everyone holding this many points drew.

The figures below come from 6 different years, 2017 to 2025, because a hunt reports at this level only in the years somebody held these points and applied for it. Each row says which year it is. Nothing here is averaged across years, and nothing is carried forward into a year the division has not published.

7 hunts at this 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.

The most recent year each hunt reported at this level, which is not the same year for every row — the year is shown. A dash is the division's own N/A: no permits were issued at this level, which is an absent measurement rather than zero odds.
HuntYearResident applicantsResident successNonresident applicantsNonresident success
DB1506
Fillmore - Archery
2019——2100.0%
DB1530
Beaver - Any Legal Weapon
2017——1100.0%
DB1531
Box Elder - Any Legal Weapon
20201100.0%——
DB1547
Pine Valley - Any Legal Weapon
2020——2100.0%
DB1554
Southwest Desert - Any Legal Weapon
20241100.0%——
DB1595
Pine Valley - Any Legal Weapon
2023——4100.0%
DB1622
Oquirrh/tintic - Any Legal Weapon
2025——1100.0%

Success is the division's 1 in N ratio as a percentage — permits issued over eligible applicants at this level, in that hunt, that year.

Other point levels

Latest year published: 2025. Utah has published no 2026 report. See all Utah deer hunts, every Utah species, or how these numbers are checked.