No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
Nebraska Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
In the 2025 draw Nebraska offered 2 bighorn sheep hunts to residents, drawn at random with no points. 0 of them, open to every hunter, gave at least an even chance.
Open Apr 19 – Aug 6, 2027 (expected)
Kept if you miss
2025 draw
3,111 resident applicants
How the Nebraska Draw Works (30-Second Version)
Random draw.
Every applicant has the same chance: tags divided by applicants. No points count in this draw.
No nonresident draw results are on file for Nebraska bighorn sheep — Nebraska Game and Parks Commission publishes resident results only, or none by residency. The numbers below are the resident draw.
Before You Apply
One Tag Per Lifetime
Draw a tag once and you cannot apply for Nebraska bighorn sheep again.
One mountain sheep permit in a lifetime, counted from the permit being obtained; the auction permit does not count against it.
Source: nebraskalegislature.gov
- Limit
- One per lifetime
- Nonresident Share
- Residents only
- This draw is open to residents only.
Every Hunt
2 hunt codes drawn in 2025 · 0 at 50% or better · first choice · resident
| Hunt | Season | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHS-LOTTERY Unit panhandle-counties · Ram rifle · Bighorn Sheep Lottery (regular season) | Ram rifle · Bighorn Sheep Lottery (regular season) | panhandle-counties | Dec 1–22 | 0% (small sample) | 1 / 3,111 | — |
| BHS-MGMT-LOTTERYNew 2025 Unit scotts-bluff-banner · Ram (half-curl or less) rifle · Bighorn Sheep Management Lottery | Ram (half-curl or less) rifle · Bighorn Sheep Management Lottery | scotts-bluff-banner | Mar 1–31 | — | 2 / — | — |
Showing all 2 · sorted by unit
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 2 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.
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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.