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Utah desert bighorn sheep hunt DS6626

Desert Bighorn Sheep - Escalante, East - Any Legal Weapon. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2025 to 2025. Every figure comes from a Division of Wildlife Resources report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2025 draw did

Utah issued 7 permits on hunt DS6626 in 2025, against 1,604 eligible applicants. The lowest bonus level at which anyone drew was 6; the division reported levels up to 31.

This hunt appears in the division's reports for 2025 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
202531 bonus210150.0%
202530 bonus1000—
202529 bonus3000—
202528 bonus2000—
202527 bonus4000—
202526 bonus2000—
202525 bonus601116.7%
202524 bonus6000—
202523 bonus10000—
202522 bonus8000—
202521 bonus14000—
202520 bonus17000—
202519 bonus19000—
202518 bonus18000—
202517 bonus23000—
202516 bonus81000—
202515 bonus64000—
202514 bonus36000—
202513 bonus32000—
202512 bonus45000—
202511 bonus49000—
202510 bonus56000—
20259 bonus62000—
20258 bonus68000—
20257 bonus63000—
20256 bonus87000—
20255 bonus76000—
20254 bonus82000—
20253 bonus58000—
20252 bonus87000—
20251 bonus78000—
20250 bonus128000—

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

  • 25_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.