Utah Elk EB3205 — Unit East Canyon

Limited-entry Bull Elk - East Canyon

What you may take
Limited-entry Bull Elk - East Canyon (antlered)
Weapon
Handgun
Where
East Canyon
19% public of 403,818 acres
Season (2026)
Dec 19–27, 2026
Hunter success here (2025)
43%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw · no nonresident tags in 2026 — showing 2025

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. tags, 3 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 378.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 0% (0%–<1%) 1 1
1 0% (0%–<1%) 2 0
2–10 0% same chance at every one of these levels

Monte Carlo over published bonus-point pools. A dash means Utah Division of Wildlife Resources did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$136
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$136
Total if drawn
$1,186
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0
Nonresident application fee per species or point (rose to $21 on Sept. 1, 2025) · paid at application $16 source
Nonresident 365-day hunting license, age 18+ (price in force for the March-April 2025 application; rose to $144 on July 1, 2025) · paid at application $120 source
Nonresident limited-entry bull elk permit (2025 draw) · paid if drawn $1,050 source

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

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

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Dec 19–27, 2026 p. HuntID=1692

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in East Canyon, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources counted 7 hunters and 3 elk taken in 2025 — 43% of them killed something. Full East Canyon 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 7 3 43%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025 Utah Big Game Harvest (preliminary) — single combined report, all species and hunt types

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Utah 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
2026 1 1 1.0 1 tag Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1692
2025 3 0 tags 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 378

Legal cartridges for elk in Utah

From the Utah hunting laws rules on file for a handgun. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

10mm Auto depends
.44 Magnum from $0.68/rd
.454 Casull
.460 S&W Magnum
.500 S&W Magnum
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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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