Utah Deer DB1502 — Unit Cache

General Buck Deer - Cache

What you may take
General Buck Deer - Cache (antlered)
Weapon
Archery
Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where
Cache
50% public of 1,173,308 acres
Season (2026)
Aug 15 – Sep 11, 2026
Hunter success here (2025)
25%
of everyone who hunted the area

Showing nonresident results (Standard class). Switch to resident · Standard Youth

Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 28 of 36 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. tags, 28 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1184.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 24 24
1 100% 3 3
2 100% 1 1
3–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Computed from the agency's published draw results. A dash means Utah Division of Wildlife Resources did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$165
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$165
Total if drawn
$764
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $764 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident big game application fee, per species or point applied for (plus 2.2% card processing fee) · paid at application $21 source
Nonresident 365-day hunting license, age 18+ (required to apply; a drawn nonresident big game permit also acts as a 1-year fishing license) · paid at application $144 or $190 source
Bonus or preference point only (same as the application fee; no permit fee) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $21 source
Nonresident general-season buck deer permit · paid if drawn $599 or $1,070 or $1,398 or $2,130 or $2,330 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $21 (Mar 19 – Jun 23, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 0-point cut.

Next application window: opens Mar 19, closes Apr 23, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 31. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Drew out at 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 points (2022–2026): no creep — drew at 0 points each year. Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
0now

A projection of the last five draws' median creep (capped at 2 points/yr), not a forecast. Random-pass odds still apply every year you're below the cut.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Aug 15 – Sep 11, 2026 p. HuntID=1184

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Cache, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources counted 3,887 hunters and 972 deer taken in 2025 — 25% of them killed something. Full Cache profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type Limited Entry on General Season 10 8 80%
Type General Season 755 119 16%
Type General Season 2,413 669 28%
Type General Season 428 111 26%
Type General Season 281 65 23%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025 Utah Big Game Harvest (preliminary) — single combined report, all species and hunt types 2024 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2026 28 0 Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1184
2025 41 0 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Draw Results · p. 3
2024 33 0 2024 Draw 5, Big Game Draw Results · p. 3
2023 41 0 2023 Draw 5, Big Game Draw Results · p. 3
2022 34 0 2022 Draw 5, Big Game Draw Results · p. 3
2021 34 0 2021 Draw 5, Big Game Draw Results · p. 3

Other licenses valid in Cache

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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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