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Utah · Elk · Limited entry

Utah elk hunt EB3173

Limited-entry Archery Bull Elk - Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns - Archery. What the draw actually did at each bonus point level, from 2023 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 23 permits on hunt EB3173 in 2025, against 270 eligible applicants. Permits reached applicants holding no bonus points at all.

Reported in 3 of the division's published years, 2023 to 2025.

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
202521 bonus1101100.0%
202520 bonus2000—
202519 bonus2000—
202516 bonus1000—
202515 bonus2000—
202512 bonus2000—
202511 bonus1000—
20258 bonus2000—
20257 bonus4000—
20256 bonus4000—
20255 bonus6000—
20254 bonus7000—
20253 bonus4000—
20252 bonus4000—
20251 bonus2000—
20250 bonus601116.7%
202418 bonus1101100.0%
202416 bonus1000—
202414 bonus3000—
202410 bonus1011100.0%
20248 bonus2000—
20247 bonus3000—
20246 bonus4000—
20245 bonus6000—
20244 bonus6000—
20243 bonus4000—
20242 bonus1000—
20241 bonus7000—
20240 bonus9000—
202322 bonus1101100.0%
202318 bonus3000—
202317 bonus1000—
202316 bonus3000—
202315 bonus1000—
202314 bonus3000—
202313 bonus3000—
202312 bonus3000—
202311 bonus4000—
202310 bonus3000—
20238 bonus2000—
20237 bonus3000—
20236 bonus8000—
20235 bonus2000—
20234 bonus7000—
20233 bonus801112.5%
20232 bonus4000—
20231 bonus3000—
20230 bonus8000—

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
  • 24_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28
  • 23_bg-odds.pdf — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, fetched 2026-08-28

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