California Elk 466 — Zone Grizzly Island

Grizzly Island Apprentice - Period 1 - General Methods - Antlerless · Grizzly Island Tule Elk Hunt

What you may take
Grizzly Island Apprentice - Period 1 - General Methods - Antlerless
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Grizzly Island — Tule Elk Hunt
99% public of 8,983 acres
Season (2025)
Aug 12–15, 2025
Tags (2025)
2
for 129 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 1
All elk success here (2021)
100%
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. 1 tags, 129 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% 58
1 <1% 27
2 <1% 29
3 7% 15
4–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means California Department of Fish and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$227.94
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$227.94
Total if drawn
$2,053.79
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $2,053.79 (enough points to draw) to $31,229.87 (lowest published odds).

Elk Tag Drawing Application · paid at application $8.13 source
Nonresident hunting license · paid at application $219.81 source
Nonresident elk tag (paid only if drawn) · paid if drawn, refundable $1,825.85 source

Next application window: opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 15. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Aug 12–15, 2025 p. 1

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Grizzly Island, California Department of Fish and Wildlife counted 32 hunters and 32 all elk taken in 2021 — 100% of them killed something. Full Grizzly Island profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2022) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Tule 2 2 100%
Tule 2 2 100%
Tule 2 2 100%
Tule 2 2 100%
Tule 6 6 100%
Tule 4 4 100%
Tule 3 3 100%
Tule 4 4 100%
Tule 3 3 100%
Tule 4 4 100%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. California runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2025 2 129 64.5 1 tagfrom 129 applications 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2024 2 163 81.5 1 tagfrom 163 applications 2024 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2023 2 142 71.0 1 tagfrom 142 applications 2023 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2022 2 171 85.5 1 tagfrom 171 applications 2022 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2021 2 196 98.0 1 tagfrom 196 applications 2021 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2020 2 197 98.5 1 tagfrom 197 applications 2020 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics... · p. 1
2019 3 145 48.3 1 tagfrom 145 applications 2019 Big Game Drawing Bighorn... · p. 1
2018 3 305 101.7 1 tagfrom 305 applications 2018 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1
2017 3 133 44.3 1 tagfrom 133 applications 2017 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1

Other licenses valid in Grizzly Island

Legal cartridges for elk in California

From the California 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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