Utah Elk EB3529 — Unit Circle E Ranch

CWMU Bull Elk - Circle E Ranch

What you may take
CWMU Bull Elk - Circle E Ranch (antlered)
Weapon
Rifle
Season (2026)
Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2026
Resident tags (2026)
2
for 50 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
100%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice resident applicant. 1 tags, 50 first-choice applicants, drew out at 29 points. Source: Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1719.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% (<1%–<1%) 4 0
1 <1% (<1%–<1%) 5 0
2 <1% (<1%–1%) 2 0
3 1% (<1%–1%) 6 0
4 1% (1%–2%) 4 1
5 2% (1%–2%) 2 0
6 2% (2%–2%) 2 0
7 2% (2%–2%) 2 0
8 3% (2%–3%) 7 0
9 3% (3%–3%) 4 0
10 3% (3%–4%) 2 0
11 3% (3%–4%) 2 0
12 3% (3%–4%) 1 0
13 4% (4%–5%) 1 0
14 3% (3%–4%) 1 0
15 4% (4%–4%) 2 0
16 5% (4%–5%) 1 0
17 5%
18 5% 0 0
19 6%
20 6% (5%–7%) 1 0
21 6%
22 6% 0 0
23 7%
24 7%
25 7%
26 7%
27 8%
28 8%
29 100% (100%–100%) 1 1
30–32 100% 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 (2026 resident fees)

Cash to apply
$50
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$50
Total if drawn
$364
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $364 (enough points to draw) to $19,822.39 (lowest published odds).

Resident big game application fee, per species or point (plus 2.2% card processing fee) · paid at application $10 source
Resident 365-day hunting license, ages 18-64 · paid at application $40 source
Resident limited-entry bull elk permit · paid if drawn $314 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 (2 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2026 p. HuntID=1719

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Circle E Ranch, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources counted 10 hunters and 10 elk taken in 2025 — 100% of them killed something. Full Circle E Ranch 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 CWMU 10 10 100%

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 residents, 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 2 50 25.0 29 1 tag Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1719
2025 30 19 0 tags 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 405

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Utah reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years EB3529 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2024 · Unit J.b. Ranch 76 17 2024 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 388
2023 · Unit J.b. Ranch 68 20 2023 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 391
2022 · Unit J.b. Ranch 47 16 2022 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 367
2021 · Unit J.b. Ranch 48 2021 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 360

Legal cartridges for elk in Utah

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

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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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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