Nevada Mountain Goat Draw Odds
In the 2025 draw Nevada offered 1 mountain goat hunt to nonresidents, drawn by a lottery weighted by bonus points. At 0 points a nonresident had at least an even chance in 0 hunts open to every hunter.
Main draw: closes May 13, 2027 (expected)
Leftover / second draw: closes Jun 15, 2027 (expected)
Kept if you miss. Mountain Goat license $1,200 only if drawn
2025 draw
7,315 nonresident applicants
Point only: $10 nonresident · on the draw application · apply by May 13, 2027 (expected) → Buying Points in Nevada
How the Nevada Draw Works (30-Second Version)
Bonus points (squared).
Every applicant gets points² + 1 entries in a random draw, so more points mean more chances, but never a guarantee.
Before You Apply
A Waiting Period, Not Once In A Lifetime
Draw one and you wait 10 years before applying again.
Drawing a mountain goat tag starts a ten-year wait, triggered by receiving the tag; it was a lifetime bar until 2008.
Source: leg.state.nv.us
- Limit
- 10-year wait
- Nonresident Share
- Up to 10%
- About a tenth of the goat tags go to nonresidents - two of twenty-one in a recent year - with no minimum of one.
- Tag Fee
- Due only if drawn
- You pay the tag only if you draw.
- Your Points
- Earned on a miss
- Missing the draw earns you a point for next year.
Every Hunt at 0 Points
1 hunt code drawn in 2025 · 0 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident
No weapon filter: Nevada sells one license that is valid with any legal weapon.
| Hunt | Season | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7251-102-0901 Unit 102 · Either-sex | Either-sex | 102 | Sep 1–Oct 31 | 0% (small sample) | — | 1 / 7,315 | — |
Showing all 1 · sorted by unit · 3 hunts not offered in 2025 hidden — show discontinued hunts
What These Columns Mean
- Odds at your points —
- the share of first-choice applicants at your point level 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.
- Pts needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- 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.
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About These Numbers
Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels 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.