Alaska Brown Bear DB258 — Unit 8
08, Wild Creek (spring season)
- What you may take
- 08, Wild Creek (spring season) (any bear)
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Where
- Unit 8
- Season (2025)
- Apr 1 – May 15, 2026
- Nonresident tags (2025)
- 15
- for 84 first-choice applicants
- Hunter success here (2025)
- 45%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2025 draw
Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 15 tags, 84 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026-2027 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 18% | — | — |
Tags ÷ applicants. Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes no per-level applicant counts for this hunt. How we compute these.
What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)
At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $1,924.00 (enough points to draw) to $1,924.00 (lowest published odds).
Next application window: opens Nov 1, closes Dec 15, 2026 (expected) · results ~February 20. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.
Point creep & years to draw
No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.
Seasons (2025)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Unit 8, Alaska Department of Fish and Game counted 299 hunters and 134 brown bear taken in 2025 — 45% of them killed something. Full Unit 8 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →
Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:
| What they hunted | Hunters | Harvest | Success | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type drawing | 299 | 134 | 45% | — |
Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates. Source: 2025 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics (Reported Harvest) 2024 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics (Reported Harvest)
Year by year
The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.
| Year | Tags | Applicants | Applicants per tag | Points needed | Published odds | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | 84 | 5.6 | — | 18% | 2026-2027 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20 |
| 2024 | 15 | 102 | 6.8 | — | 15% | 2025-2026 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20 |
| 2023 | 15 | 70 | 4.7 | — | 21% | 2024-2025 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20 |
| 2022 | 15 | 82 | 5.5 | — | 18% | 2023-2024 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20 |
| 2021 | 15 | 82 | 5.5 | — | 18% | 2022-2023 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20 |
Other licenses valid in Unit 8
Legal cartridges for brown bear in Alaska
From the Alaska hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.
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How to read these numbers
Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.
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This page is informational only. Draw rules, quotas, fees, and deadlines are set by the state agency and change by commission action — confirm everything on the agency's own site before you apply, and apply through the agency, not here. We disclaim all liability for reliance on this page.