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Utah · Elk · Limited entry

Utah elk hunt EB3198

Limited-entry Alw (rifle) Bull Elk - Mid - Southwest Desert, South - Any Legal Weapon. 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 46 permits on hunt EB3198 in 2025, against 529 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
202524 bonus2202100.0%
202523 bonus2000—
202522 bonus4000—
202521 bonus401125.0%
202519 bonus2000—
202518 bonus2000—
202517 bonus3000—
202516 bonus4000—
202515 bonus4000—
202514 bonus5000—
202513 bonus7000—
202512 bonus3000—
202511 bonus701114.3%
202510 bonus9000—
20259 bonus1000—
20258 bonus7000—
20257 bonus3000—
20256 bonus5000—
20255 bonus7000—
20254 bonus8000—
20253 bonus9000—
20252 bonus5000—
20251 bonus14000—
20250 bonus11000—
202423 bonus1101100.0%
202422 bonus210150.0%
202421 bonus3000—
202420 bonus3000—
202419 bonus1000—
202418 bonus2000—
202417 bonus2000—
202416 bonus2000—
202415 bonus4000—
202414 bonus4000—
202413 bonus3000—
202412 bonus301133.3%
202411 bonus6000—
202410 bonus701114.3%
20249 bonus2000—
20248 bonus6000—
20247 bonus10000—
20246 bonus3000—
20245 bonus2000—
20244 bonus7000—
20243 bonus6000—
20242 bonus12000—
20241 bonus7000—
20240 bonus13000—
202325 bonus1101100.0%
202324 bonus210150.0%
202322 bonus2000—
202321 bonus1000—
202320 bonus3000—
202319 bonus1000—
202316 bonus201150.0%
202315 bonus1000—
202314 bonus6000—
202313 bonus3000—
202311 bonus3000—
20239 bonus5000—
20238 bonus501120.0%
20237 bonus6000—
20236 bonus3000—
20235 bonus3000—
20234 bonus8000—
20233 bonus11000—
20232 bonus8000—
20231 bonus8000—
20230 bonus9000—

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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