Texas Turkey Draw Odds
In the 2025 draw Texas offered 16 turkey hunts to residents and nonresidents in one shared draw, drawn by a lottery weighted by bonus points. At 0 points an applicant had at least an even chance in 0 hunts open to every hunter.
Applications open now: close Nov 1, 2026, opened Jul 1
Kept if you miss. Turkey license $315 only if drawn
2025 draw
How the Texas Draw Works (30-Second Version)
Bonus points (cubed).
Every applicant gets points³ + 1 entries in a random draw, so more points mean more chances, but never a guarantee.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.
NTS-UP
Unit UP · Turkey · National Refuge Spring Turkey · Hagerman NWR
- Success
- —
- Public
- 100%
- Season
- Apr 22–24
GTS-JD
Unit JD · Turkey · Spring Turkey · James Daughtrey WMA
- Success
- 30%
- Public
- 100%
- Season
- Mar 23–Apr 1
ETK-MP
Unit MP · Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Moore Plantation WMA
- Success
- 23%
- Public
- 99%
- Season
- Apr 22–25
GTS-KE
Unit KE · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Kerr WMA
- Success
- 48%
- Public
- 100%
- Season
- Apr 6–8
ETK-CA
Unit CA · Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Caddo National Grasslands WMA · Bois d'Arc Unit
- Success
- —
- Public
- 97%
- Season
- Apr 22–28
Every Hunt at 0 Points
16 hunt codes drawn in 2025 · 0 at 50% or better · first choice · all residencies
| Hunt | Season | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETK-CA Unit CA · Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Caddo National Grasslands WMA · Bois d'Arc Unit | Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Caddo National Grasslands WMA · Bois d'Arc Unit | CA | Apr 22–28 | <1% | — | 10 / — | — |
| GTS-GE Unit GE · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Gene Howe WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · Gene Howe WMA | GE | Apr 12–14 | <1% (small sample) | — | 3 / — | — |
| YTS-GENew 2025 Youth · Unit GE · Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Gene Howe WMA | Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Gene Howe WMAYouth | GE | Apr 10–11 | <1% (small sample) | — | 1 / — | — |
| GTS-JD Unit JD · Turkey · Spring Turkey · James Daughtrey WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · James Daughtrey WMA | JD | Mar 23–Apr 1 | 1% | — | 24 / — | 30% |
| YTS-JD Youth · Unit JD · Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · James Daughtrey WMA | Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · James Daughtrey WMAYouth | JD | Mar 13–14 | 2% | — | 12 / — | 30% |
| GTS-KE Unit KE · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Kerr WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · Kerr WMA | KE | Apr 6–8 | <1% | — | 10 / — | 48% |
| YTS-KE Youth · Unit KE · Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Kerr WMA | Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Kerr WMAYouth | KE | Mar 27–28 | 1% | — | 10 / — | 48% |
| GTS-MA Unit MA · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Matador WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · Matador WMA | MA | Apr 21–28 | <1% | — | 8 / — | 21% |
| YTS-MA Youth · Unit MA · Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Matador WMA | Turkey · Youth Only Spring Turkey · Matador WMAYouth | MA | Apr 24–25 | <1% (small sample) | — | 4 / — | 21% |
| GTS-MM Unit MM · Either-sex · Spring Turkey · Mason Mountain WMA | Either-sex · Spring Turkey · Mason Mountain WMA | MM | Apr 6–8 | — | — | — / — | — |
| ETK-MP Unit MP · Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Moore Plantation WMA | Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Moore Plantation WMA | MP | Apr 22–25 | 1% | — | 18 / — | 23% |
| GTS-MW Unit MW · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Muse WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · Muse WMA | MW | Apr 6–15 | <1% | — | 8 / — | 25% |
| ETK-PM Unit PM · Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Pat Mayse WMA | Turkey · E-Postcard Turkey · Pat Mayse WMA | PM | Apr 22–28 | — | — | — / — | — |
| GTS-RF Unit RF · Turkey · Spring Turkey · Roger Fawcett WMA | Turkey · Spring Turkey · Roger Fawcett WMA | RF | Apr 6–8 | <1% | — | 6 / — | — |
| NTS-UENew 2025 Unit UE · Turkey · National Refuge Spring Turkey · Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR · East Lake | Turkey · National Refuge Spring Turkey · Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR · East Lake | UE | Apr 2–11 | <1% | — | 8 / — | — |
| NTS-UP Unit UP · Turkey · National Refuge Spring Turkey · Hagerman NWR | Turkey · National Refuge Spring Turkey · Hagerman NWR | UP | Apr 22–24 | 2% | — | 25 / — | — |
Showing all 16 · sorted by unit · 9 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.
- Private land, RFW, ranch, youth —
- tags not every hunter can use: private-land-only hunts need landowner access, ranch hunts (Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife, Utah's CWMUs) come with access to one ranch, youth tags have an age limit. They are never best bets and never colour the map.
All 21 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 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.