Alaska Musk Ox — Unit 23
Alaska Unit 23 covers 30,143,557 acres and lies 34 miles north-east of Noorvik and 65 miles east of Kotzebue. In 2025, 6 people hunted musk ox here and took 6 — 100% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a musk ox license in Unit 23 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska musk ox hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
How the hunting has gone
What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 6 | 100% | 4.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 100% | 4.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 | 80% | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 100% | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 | 80% | 1.3 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)