Utah Elk Draw

[Edwin]

I've got 7 points and put in for lower tier tags. I don't ever PLAN on drawing, but I HOPE that someday I will. That hope is worth the price tag, for me.

Yep. And to the OP wasatch archery would be a good fit for your point situation. Good luck

 

[mr_steve]

My 3 observations about the points game (6 states for the last 5-7 years).

1. You are never guaranteed anything, it’s all a gamble.

2. Can’t win if you don’t play.

3. The more tags you apply for the better chances you have of drawing one.

 

[jabber]

With 9, 10 and 10 points for Bison, DBHS and RMBHS, respectively, I dropped out applying for those for my son and I. I had previously dropped RM Goat with 6 points. The odds just didn't make sense to me. I will take that $80 each year and do something with it. A few years back when Utah opened it up to where the NR's could apply for everything, I originally thought "wow, that's great, now I have a chance at drawing all of these. They really screwed the R's by not letting them do that." Now, I know who was really screwed and who really increased their income with that change.

Good luck to those of you that are still in for those drawings, I hope I helped your odds some.

 

[Birddog916]

I apply for UT every year because they have some good general season deer hunts that can be drawn almost every year by nonresidents. I can fly to SLC rent a car and be in some great deer county in a few hours for relatively low cost. If I'm applying for deer anyway, might as well apply for elk is the way I look at it.

 

[mariano742]

somebody said “your odds don’t accumulate it’s still 2%”
you’re right and wrong. each year it is 2%. but if you apply for a 2% draw odds hunt every year for 20 years you will have a much greater than 2% chance of drawing it once in those 20 years. think of it as having 20 chances for a 2% event to occur. it’s just that those chances are spread out over time

 

[ImBillT]

somebody said “your odds don’t accumulate it’s still 2%”
you’re right and wrong. each year it is 2%. but if you apply for a 2% draw odds hunt every year for 20 years you will have a much greater than 2% chance of drawing it once in those 20 years. think of it as having 20 chances for a 2% event to occur. it’s just that those chances are spread out over time

(1-.02)^20=66.8% chance of not drawing, or a 33.2% of drawing at least once over a twenty year span.

 

[mariano742]

(1-.02)^20=66.8% chance of not drawing, or a 33.2% of drawing at least once over a twenty year span.

yup. so better than 2%. over that span of time.

 

[Cheesehead]

To the OP considering Utah...
1) will you mule deer hunt general units every ~3 years going forward?
2) are you a sheep nut who absolutely needs to put in everywhere?
If no to the above, skip UT