Alaska Mountain Goat DG858 — Unit 14C

14C, Bird Creek

What you may take
14C, Bird Creek
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Unit 14C
Season (2025)
Sep 1 – Oct 15, 2025
Nonresident tags (2025)
4
for 1,041 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. 4 tags, 1,041 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026-2027 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1%

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)

Cash to apply
$165
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$165
Total if drawn
$765
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $43,546.38 (enough points to draw) to $43,546.38 (lowest published odds).

Drawing application fee, per hunt entry · paid at application $5 source
Nonresident annual hunting license · paid at application $160 source
Nonresident goat locking-tag · paid if drawn $600 source

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)

Split 1: Sep 1 – Oct 15, 2025 season taken from the table's merged season column (nearest printed range) p. 6

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 14C, Alaska Department of Fish and Game counted 42 hunters and 19 mountain goat taken in 2025 — 45% of them killed something. Full Unit 14C profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

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 Goat General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510) 2024 Goat General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2025 4 1,041 260.3 2026-2027 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20
2024 4 1,008 252.0 2025-2026 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20
2023 4 1,056 264.0 2024-2025 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20
2022 4 948 237.0 2023-2024 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20
2021 4 926 231.5 2022-2023 Alaska Drawing Permit... · p. 20

Other licenses valid in Unit 14C

Legal cartridges for mountain goat 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.

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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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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