2023 Utah Draw Results (2024)

Let's get it going.

Who is in?

What animals have you drawn previously?

Where you at in points?

Maybe even post some photos of stuff you've killed in Utah to get everyone excited.

It appears @Khunter @Greenhorn and @Steve O, among others, may all be sitting pretty for elk tags. Looking forward to seeing some great stories of hunts for big elk.

I'm in.

I've pulled a muzzy deer tag and and rifle pronghorn buck and doe tags. I do my dad's apps, and he has also gotten a rifle pronghorn as well.

16 points for mountain goat, 14 for elk and other stuff I haven't drawn.

After NM results came out and I was unsuccessful, I focused on a lower quality (for Utah) elk tag I've been trying to pull for a while.

I'm in too.

Drew OIL moose in 2007, limited entry elk in 2009 and pronghorn in 2021. One of my son's drew pronghorn a few years ago and my brother has drawn mountain goat.

I'm sitting on 15 points for mountain goat, 14 for deer, sheep and bison and 8 for elk.

I figure my only realistic shot is lower tier deer and elk sometime in the next 20+ years. Mountain goat, sheep and bison are more of a yearly donation at this point.

I'm in for elk. Chances are slim, but not zero

Chances are I'll just live vicariously through the high point holding HTers, and I can live with that.

I didn't know this when I applied, but according to another Utah thread I am a financially irresponsible gambler for applying to Utah

When I entered UT I had an 80% chance of drawing a rifle elk tag in non-crapper unit at least once in a 20yr period. Due to switching the odd numbered tags to preference(cutting odds for units with 3 tags in half!) and the increased demand, that number is substantially lower, although I haven’t calculated it in a while. If I stick in UT, I will most likely never draw an elk tag.

At the time I entered, I had about a 50% chance of drawing at least one OIL species over a 20yr period. That has also dropped to near zero.

80% chance at one elk tag and 50% chance at one OIL, and I was borderline okay with rolling those dice. NV gave me similar odds, but cost almost 10X as much to apply due to the higher priced license and having to purchase a license every year. On top of the that, due to point squaring, the probability that I would draw one of those tags in the first 10 years instead of the second 10 years was something like 4X higher in UT than NV. I’m also a sucker for any 4x4 mule deer, and as a result I have a stack of 135”-145” skulls. The UT general deer tag was also a big advantage over NV, but if I was looking for big bucks, UT general deer would not have enticed me. TODAY HOWEVER, my odds of drawing a good elk tag in UT in just 20yrs are far lower. My odds of drawing a OIL tag are near zero. The the prices have gone up , although not tooooo much EXCEPT for the general deer tag. The general deer tag price increase was really a bitter pill. I love opportunity, but when UT puts out more late rifle deer tags than there were bucks before the archery, muzzle loader, and early rifle seasons, I really have to wonder why I would pay almost as much as CO to hunt an overcrowded unit full of dinks(I know some big ones come out of general units sometimes), in the last season where only the leftovers remain.

I’m going to hunt a general deer hunt at least once before I bail on UT. If I’m pleasantly surprised, I’ll keep it in the rotation for years that I don’t draw NM and don’t have the points for the hunt I want in CO or AZ. If it stinks, I’m probably out on UT.

Just trying not to draw before I am 70 so I can use a crossbow.

I chuckled anyway.

ashersdad said:

I'm in too.

Drew OIL moose in 2007, limited entry elk in 2009 and pronghorn in 2021. One of my son's drew pronghorn a few years ago and my brother has drawn mountain goat.

I'm sitting on 15 points for mountain goat, 14 for deer, sheep and bison and 8 for elk.

I figure my only realistic shot is lower tier deer and elk sometime in the next 20+ years. Mountain goat, sheep and bison are more of a yearly donation at this point.

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Utah has been good to you.

I'm on timeout for elk after drawing a few years back with 18 points. I'm in for the OILs and for LE pronghorn, with various single digit point levels. Unlikely to draw any of them, ever, but I definitely won't if I'm not in.

Provided creep doesn’t get me and nobody who has been sitting on the sidelines jumps in I have around a 99.3% (if I did the math right) chance onnnnn—

not drawing anything!

Utah has been good to us. My wife and I both drew in the random draw

Hoping to burn my >20+ deer points on a premier tag this year. I should draw unless too many people jump units

IdahoNick said:

Utah has been good to you.

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I think it helped that I was building points in the 90's for elk and moose as a resident and then when we moved to Oregon I was ahead of alot of non-residents on points.