Limited Utah Deer

DeerMadness · Apr 27, 2023

I applied for Limited Oak Creek any weapon and 2nd choice Oak Creek Muzzy. I have a snowballs chance in hell odds of drawing as I have 11 NR points. Oh well I want to play Lotto. Good luck My Dears...

BrowningRage · Apr 27, 2023

Last year I drew an LE deer tag with just 3 points. Never knew anyone who drew a tag that wasn't in the bonus tag pool before. Then I did.!

Good luck to you, there's always a chance.!

DeerMadness · Apr 28, 2023

One in 307 or so but it could happen.
I really didn't care so much I just wanted to apply.

Founder · Apr 28, 2023

That’d be really cool to come out on top with those odds. Probably be more fun drawing the tag than hunting!

DeerMadness · Apr 28, 2023

Founder said:
That’d be really cool to come out on top with those odds. Probably be more fun drawing the tag than hunting!

I agree Founder...It would be laughable.

Founder · Apr 28, 2023

DeerMadness said:
I agree Founder...It would be laughable.

My wife won a drawing for a trip to Italy once. There were about 300 people in the drawing. Beating those odds was so fun….Italy was ok.

Alaskabound · Apr 28, 2023

Even with extreme odds its fun to be in the game, I was lucky enough to draw my Wasatch LE MZ Elk last year and have drawn a Nevada PIW deer tag in the past...good luck everyone!

ridgetops · Apr 28, 2023

Since nobody has said it yet. You have zero chance of drawing your second choice but good luck with your first choice. If your basing your odds off 307 people that put in last year, that's not your true odds. In fact with 11 points, your odds are probably a little better than that.

BearBait49 · Apr 28, 2023

I agree its nice to atleast apply for a chance regardless of how
Slim that chance may be . You have zero chance if you don't apply. I drew arguably the best archery Elk tag in the state of Nevada 2 years ago as a non resident with 12 points. 3 non resident tags given out with over 3000 applicants!! With Nevada using squared points the odds of one of my numbers coming up were horrendous.... but I somehow managed to get lucky. "So you're saying there's a chance" definitely comes to mind haha.

Good luck in the draws this year everyone you never know when lightning is going to strike!

257Tony · Apr 28, 2023

My Daughter drew Pauns rifle last year with 1 point, she was only around 174 years out (literally) from being guaranteed.

I drew a Wasatch late Bull tag at the Expo, 4000 people in for 4 tags.

These are the things I tell myself as I put in for sheep each year...

elkhunterUT · Apr 28, 2023

Someone always beats the odds - one of the reasons that I like Utah's draw process with 50% of tags going to highest point holders and 50% random. There is always a chance.

I drew a OIL moose tag with ZERO points in 2000 and hunted RM Bighorn sheep last year. Hoping I can draw Desert bighorn sheep this year with ZERO ?

BearBait49 · Apr 28, 2023

elkhunterUT said:
Someone always beats the odds - one of the reasons that I like Utah's draw process with 50% of tags going to highest point holders and 50% random. There is always a chance.

I drew a OIL moose tag with ZERO points in 2000 and hunted RM Bighorn sheep last year. Hoping I can draw Desert bighorn sheep this year with ZERO ?

Haha good luck with that! But you are right seems like every year 1 or 2 fantastic tags get drawn by applicants with 0 or 1 point. I also like Our (Utahs) system!

eyeman · Apr 28, 2023

GOOD LUCK!
I drew a NR LE Elk tag with 4 points about 5 years ago.
Drew my res Desert Bighorn in Nevada same year.

SanPitch · Apr 28, 2023

ridgetops said:
Since nobody has said it yet. You have zero chance of drawing your second choice but good luck with your first choice. If your basing your odds off 307 people that put in last year, that's not your true odds. In fact with 11 points, your odds are probably a little better than that.

Correct me if I’m wrong but, if we base it off last year he has a 1 in 1220 chance as there were that many who applied and only 1 random tag

rmanwill · Apr 28, 2023

Yep, can't draw if you don't put in. Sure is fun thinking about drawing a random. Years ago my brother-in-law asked what unit to put my wife's sister in for moose. I told him Chalk Creek. There was only one random tag and she drew it on her first time putting in with zero points. It can happen. Good luck to all in the draws.

Blank · Apr 28, 2023

I drew OIL sheep, goat, and moose here in Idaho in three consecutive years. I also drew a Texas Scimitar Oryx hunt with 4000:1 odds. Never pass up applying, if there are random tags available!!!

Stillwater165 · Apr 28, 2023

Basically just winged our Utah apps this year, have a few points but who knows !!!! Time will tell !!!

PRCnut · Apr 28, 2023

Good luck to everyone! I’m hoping 21 NR pts is enough

easyelk13 · Apr 29, 2023

Someone will draw the random tags. I've drawn some myself.
You for sure wont draw if you don't put in!

yotebuster17 · Apr 29, 2023

I drew the oak creek muzzy tag a while back with 11 LE points as a NR. It’s a random tag so someone’s gotta get it. I’m probably the luckiest guy I know though. I drew the NV PIW tag the same year so that was fun.

littlebighorn · Apr 29, 2023

Some people are just plain lucky with draws and I'm not one of them. I was pretty much the last person in my point pool to draw most of my LE/OIL tags and I'm still playing the point game in multiple states with no expectations.

rmanwill · Apr 29, 2023

littlebighorn said:
Some people are just plain lucky with draws and I'm not one of them. I was pretty much the last person in my point pool to draw most of my LE/OIL tags and I'm still playing the point game in multiple states with no expectations.

I'm right there with you littlebighorn. Luckily I bought points for wife and kids from the time they were eligible and have been on some awesome hunts and have several more to come. I don't have to be the trigger guy to make memories.

DeerMadness · Apr 29, 2023

Talking to my cousin this weekend and he said might as well do it which I had. Ste George is a pretty place. We went to Gunlock Falls today. Ate lunch at Pork Bellys and bought a Mountain Berry Pie at Veyos which I just had a piece topped with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. Oh my gosh was it awesome. If no one watches I might have another piece. Haha
I just learned that the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is about 60 miles from here.
The old road to Vegas is on the way to Gunlock Falls. Too many people with money here so the houses are beoucoup bucks. Tons of hiking trails and bike trails but too many people.
It is so hot here and we didn't have any time to adjust from the Idaho temp to this 90°+ temp. Whew ?

Homer · May 11, 2023

I forgot to apply......

jester · May 11, 2023

I drew Pauns ALW twice in four years as a non resident...
Jester

woodruffhunter · May 11, 2023

My family has been lucky in Utah, as residents:
My wife drew elk- 2-3% odds
Me (twice), all 3 of my sons have drawn bear tags within the past 7-8 years in very good units (all random tags)
Drew Books Cliffs Muzzleloader with 4 points, I believe.
Drew a bison expo tag several years back, my dad drew an expo elk tag the next year.

We have been lucky and I’ll be trying to fill my bear tag in a few weeks…

huntin50 · May 12, 2023

My lucky draw was MT bighorn less than 1% chance.
Son drew Unit 7 antelope AZ less than 1%
My little brother drew any weapon LE elk on Monroe with 1 point.
Yet I still haven't drawn a once in a lifetime species in Utah and I'm 60 years old. Maybe goat this year.

DeerMadness · May 13, 2023

I was lucky from 2010 to 2016 in Idaho Controlled hunts- Elk, Deer, Antelope. I drew one or another . I drew a bull elk tag in 2020. So about 8 tags since 2006. If you do the math it is about one tag every 2.1 years. But the first 11 years were my best. I started hunting in Idaho in 1970 but we lived in Washington then.
I got a NR Muley Doe at 12 years old. I got a spike Whitetail at 14 yo. Moved to Idaho and dropped a 6 point Elk when I was 15 about 2 months before my 16th birthday. I left Idaho in 1978 and didn't move back until 2005. I lived in Utah from 1999 to 2005. I dropped a Muley every year I was a Resident there and 1 Elk.
I caught an 8 lb Rainbow Trout while I lived there which was pretty cool.
I've drawn 3 Elk and one Deer in Utah as a Non Res. I haven't applied with my Pronghorn , Elk and Moose points in Utah for 4 years. I still have the points though.

D_Hoyt · May 13, 2023

I drew a great pronghorn unit in Nevada with 2 points when I lived there. Utah has never been kind to me. My dad drew a tag in Panguitch Lake for elk with 2 points.