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Demand Report - Non-Resident Elk
Nonresident Preference Point
State of Wyoming
Wyoming Game and Fish
Fiscal Division
Hunt
Area
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001
Hunt
Type
---1
4
Pref
Description
----------------------ANY
ELK
Quota
----6
7
4
006
006
007
1
4
1
ANY
ELK
ANTLERLESS ELK
ANY ELK
Issued
-----6
Points
-----15
<
15
0 < 4
First Choice First Choice
Applicants
-----------6
274
ANTLERLESS
ELK 914 1
8
< 2
813 1
0 < 3
732 3
441 4
< 1
1
< 8
PLAYING THE ODDS
Hunting can be a gamble, but playing the
odds can increase your chance of success -
at least when it comes to the draw. Learning
how to read drawing odds will help you to be
a more informed license applicant. Knowing
the likelihood of drawing a license will help
you apply to the best hunt areas and use your
preference points most effectively.
Drawing odds can be found online
007
2
ANTLERED ELK FIVE (5
007
4
ANTLERLESS ELK
through the hunting section of the Wyoming
Game and Fish Department website
or on the Hunt Planner. When looking at
the drawing odds, they are always from a
previous year's drawing. The actual outcomes
of any year will be different depending on
the applicants and the quotas for the given
year. The odds are meant to help with planning
your hunt but cannot be relied on with
complete certainty.
Pictured above is an example from the
nonresident preference-point draw. To read
the drawing odds, begin by choosing the
species, hunt area and license type.
This example shows the nonresident
full-price elk preference-point draw for
Hunt Area 1, Type 4 licenses. In the preference-point
draw, only the applicant's first
choice is considered. In this example, the
first choice applicants column lists how
many people chose Hunt Area 1, Type 4, as
their first choice. Each row of the first choice
applicants column relates to the number of
preference points each number of applicants
had. For example, one person applied to Elk
Hunt Area 1, Type 4 with four preference
points, and that person was successful.
For elk, Hunt Area 1, Type 4 there were
nine licenses allocated to the nonresident preference-point
draw. Since nobody applied to
this draw with more than four preference
points, the person who applied with four
points was issued one of the nine licenses
available, resulting in a 100 percent chance of
getting the license. There were more licenses
available than applicants with that number
of preference points. Moving through the
table, there are now eight licenses available,
one less because a license was issued to the
applicant with four points. In this case, no one
applied with more than three or less than four
preference points. Partial preference points
can occur when hunters apply in a party and
their preference points are averaged.
There was one applicant with three preference
points next, and that person drew with
100 percent certainty, reducing the number of
licenses to seven. There were no applicants who
had between two and three preference points,
leaving seven licenses available. Three people
applied with two preference points and drew
the license, leaving four more licenses which
were allocated to four people who applied
with one preference point. The 11 people who
applied with no points did not draw a license
because the quota was already reached.
In this particular example, if you had
74
72
72
71
67
62
62
45
40
24
22
37
35
2
< 12
6
3 < 6
< 5
2 < 4
0 < 3
< 2
13
<= 1
no preference points the odds of drawing
a license were 0 percent, but if you had at
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17
5
16
23
0 < 15
14
< 14
13
2 < 13
12
17
11
329 2
0 < 9
0 < 1
1
46
118 1
6
6 20 2
2
0 < 17
16
4 < 16
15
5
2
1
4
5
17
5
16
2
31
1018
2
3
3205 0
32
3234 3
29
2
2753 5
22
2292 9
13
13
49
132 14 1
Success Odds
-----------100.00%
0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
70.97%
0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
100.00%
0.00%
100.00%
Date:
5/15/2023
Time: 9:00:25 AM
Page: 21
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