No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.

Alaska Mountain Goat Draw Odds

In the 2025 draw Alaska offered 39 mountain goat hunts to nonresidents, drawn at random with no points. 0 of them, open to every hunter, gave at least an even chance.

Applications Close

59 days

Dec 15

Open Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2026 (expected)

Cost to Apply

$165

Kept if you miss. Mountain Goat license $600 only if drawn

Nonresident Tags

814

2025 draw

Applicants per Tag

46.7

38,006 nonresident applicants

How the Alaska Draw Works (30-Second Version)

Random draw.

Every applicant has the same chance: tags divided by applicants. No points count in this draw.

Who can apply, fees and deadlines in Alaska

Best Bets

Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.

Billy or Either-Sex

DG476

Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Kiliuda Bay

11%

Success: 52%
Public: —
Season: Aug 20–Oct 25

DG357

Unit 15C · Either-sex rifle · 15C, Tustumena Glacier

Success: 37%
Public: —
Season: Aug 10–Oct 15

DG351

Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Petrof Lake

12%

Success: 10%
Public: —
Season: Aug 20–Oct 25

DG891

Unit 14A · Rifle · 14A, Marcus Baker

Success: 32%
Public: —
Season: Sep 1–30

DG006

Unit 1A · Rifle · Unit 1A, Revillagigedo I. Deer Mt. area, Mt. Goat

<1%

Success: 93%
Public: —
Season: Aug 15–Dec 31

DG720

Unit 13D · Either-sex rifle · 13D

Success: 31%
Public: —
Season: Aug 10–Nov 30

Nanny

DG359

Unit 15C · Nanny rifle · 15C, Bradley Lake

Success: 37%
Public: —
Season: Aug 10–Oct 15

Before You Apply

Not Once In A Lifetime Here

Alaska puts no lifetime limit on mountain goat tags.

No general waiting period, but killing a nanny in Units 6, 7 or 15 bars you from goat hunting there for five regulatory years. The online goat identification quiz is mandatory.

Source: adfg.alaska.gov

Limit: No lifetime limit
Nonresident Share: There is no statewide nonresident cap; goat caps are set hunt by hunt, and a nonresident must hunt with a registered guide or a close Alaska-resident relative.
Tag Fee: Due only if drawn; You pay the tag only if you draw.

Every Hunt

39 hunt codes drawn in 2025 · 0 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident

Last year's odds were off by about 1 percentage point for the typical applicant. How we check

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

Include private-land & ranch hunts

	Hunt		Season
DG005 Unit 1A · Rifle · Unit 1A, Revillagigedo I. Achilles Mt. area, Mt. Goat	Rifle · Unit 1A, Revillagigedo I. Achilles Mt. area, Mt. Goat	1A	Aug 15–Dec 31	<1% (small sample)	3 / 749	93%
DG006 Unit 1A · Rifle · Unit 1A, Revillagigedo I. Deer Mt. area, Mt. Goat	Rifle · Unit 1A, Revillagigedo I. Deer Mt. area, Mt. Goat	1A	Aug 15–Dec 31	<1%	23 / 3,352	93%
DG008 Unit 1A +1 · Billy rifle · Unit 1A, 1B Cleveland Pen., Mt. Goat	Billy rifle · Unit 1A, 1B Cleveland Pen., Mt. Goat	1A +1	Aug 1–Dec 31	<1% (small sample)	1 / 354	93%
DG332New 2025 Unit 7 · Either-sex rifle · 7, Gilpatrick Mt.	Either-sex rifle · 7, Gilpatrick Mt.	7	Aug 1–Dec 31	<1%	6 / 1,583	10%
DG334 Unit 7 · Either-sex rifle · 7, Mills Creek	Either-sex rifle · 7, Mills Creek	7	Aug 1–Dec 31	<1%	7 / 992	10%
DG338 Unit 7 · Either-sex rifle · 7, Crescent Lake	Either-sex rifle · 7, Crescent Lake	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	<1%	9 / 1,952	10%
DG339 Unit 7 · Either-sex rifle · 7, Grant Lake	Either-sex rifle · 7, Grant Lake	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	1%	7 / 571	10%
DG342 Unit 7 · Nanny rifle · 7, Lost Lake	Nanny rifle · 7, Lost Lake	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	<1%	8 / 1,042	10%
DG343 Unit 7 · Nanny rifle · 7, Victor Creek	Nanny rifle · 7, Victor Creek	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	2%	6 / 270	10%
DG344 Unit 7 · Nanny rifle · 7, Nellie Juan Lake	Nanny rifle · 7, Nellie Juan Lake	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	2%	8 / 387	10%
DG345 Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Whidbey Bay	Rifle · 7, Whidbey Bay	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	5%	35 / 645	10%
DG346 Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Resurrection Peninsula	Rifle · 7, Resurrection Peninsula	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	2%	45 / 2,449	10%
DG347 Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Seward	Rifle · 7, Seward	7	Aug 10–Oct 15	1%	14 / 1,040	10%
DG351 Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Petrof Lake	Rifle · 7, Petrof Lake	7	Aug 20–Oct 25	12%	14 / 116	10%
DG352 Unit 7 · Rifle · 7, Brown Mt.	Rifle · 7, Brown Mt.	7	Aug 20–Oct 25	7%	25 / 383	10%
DG471 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Wild Creek · Center Mt.	Rifle · 08, Wild Creek · Center Mt.	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	6%	35 / 546	52%
DG472 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Crown Mt	Rifle · 08, Crown Mt	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	4%	12 / 316	52%
DG473 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Hidden Basin · East Terror Lake	Rifle · 08, Hidden Basin · East Terror Lake	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	3%	12 / 480	52%
DG474 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Uganik River	Rifle · 08, Uganik River	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	10%	70 / 699	52%
DG476 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, Kiliuda Bay	Rifle · 08, Kiliuda Bay	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	11%	50 / 457	52%
DG478 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, South Road System	Rifle · 08, South Road System	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	2%	80 / 3,360	52%
DG479 Unit 8 · Rifle · 08, North Road System	Rifle · 08, North Road System	8	Aug 20–Oct 25	2%	50 / 2,364	52%
DG720 Unit 13D · Either-sex rifle · 13D	Either-sex rifle · 13D	13D	Aug 10–Nov 30	1%	15 / 1,570	31%
DG890 Unit 14A · Either-sex rifle · 14A, Metal Creek	Either-sex rifle · 14A, Metal Creek	14A	Sep 1–30	2%	20 / 1,167	32%
DG891 Unit 14A · Rifle · 14A, Marcus Baker	Rifle · 14A, Marcus Baker	14A	Sep 1–30	3%	30 / 874	32%

Showing 1–25 of 39 · sorted by unit · 3 hunts not offered in 2025 hidden — show discontinued hunts

Show all 39 hunts

What These Columns Mean

Odds: the share of first-choice applicants who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
Tags / apps: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
Success: the share of hunters in the unit who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole unit's figure, not the hunt's.

All 18 Units

Each unit has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

1A 93% success 1B 49% success 1C 52% success 1D 30% success 4 78% success 5A 6A 79% success 6B 64% success 6C 29% success 6D 41% success 7 10% success 8 52% success 11 56% success 13D 31% success 13E 14A 32% success 14C 45% success 15C 37% success

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About These Numbers

Every percentage here is the chance any applicant had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas and applicant numbers change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.