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California Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds

Enter your points, see your chance of drawing every bighorn sheep tag in California — straight from the 2025 draw results.

Next application:opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected) Cost to apply:$227.94 ($227.94 if you miss) Tags (2025):27 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:11,592

* Projected from this year's calendar; the agency sets next year's exact dates.

How the California draw works (30-second version)

Hybrid: preference + random.

Say a hunt area has 100 nonresident tags. 75 go to the applicants with the most preference points; if the last point level that draws has more applicants than tags left, that level is split at random. The other 25 are drawn purely at random from everyone who missed the points pass — so an applicant with zero points still has a shot.

Full mechanics, fees, and deadlines →

How much these move year to year: last year's odds missed by <1% for the typical applicant (most people sit right at the cut). Details

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 501 Zone 1 - Marble and Clipper Mountains - General Method - Ram 1 tags · 1,515 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 502 Zone 2 - Old Dad and Kelso Peak Mountains - General Method - Ram 3 tags · 971 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 503 Zone 3 - Clark and Kingston Mountain Ranges - General Method - Ram 4 tags · 1,535 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 504 Zone 4 - Orocopia Mountains - General Method - Ram 1 tags · 799 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 505 Zone 5 - San Gorgonio Wilderness - General Method - Ram 1 tags · 793 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 506 Zone 6 - Sheep Hole Mountains - General Method - Ram 1 tags · 569 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 507 Zone 7 - White Mountains - General Method - Ram P1 3 tags · 1,419 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 508 Zone 8 - South Bristol Mountains - General Method - Ram 1 tags · 380 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 509 Zone 9 - Cady Mountains - General Method - Ram 2 tags · 754 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 511 Zone 7 - White Mountains - General Method - Ram P2 2 tags · 469 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 512 Zone 10 - Newberry, Rodman and Ord Mountains 4 tags · 1,297 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 513 Zone 10 - Newberry, Rodman and Ord Mountains P2 4 tags · 1,091 applicants
    <1% Point builder
What these columns mean
Your odds
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the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
1 hunt not offered in 2025 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

Browse by hunt area

Each area 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.

1 Marble/Clipper Mountains 96% public 2 Kelso Peak/Old Dad Mountains 98% public 3 Clark/Kingston Mountain Ranges 96% public 4 Orocopia Mountains 77% public 5 San Gorgonio Mountains 61% public 6 Sheep Hole Mountains 97% public 7 White Mountains 96% public 8 South Bristol Mountains 95% public 9 Cady Mountains 78% public 10 Newberry, Rodman and Ord Mountains 78% public
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Every report is checked against the agency source before we change anything.

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.

Not an application service

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.