Wyoming Elk 126-6 — Hunt Area 126, Type 6

Cow or calf · Lost Springs

Hunt Area 126 within Wyoming

What you may take: Cow or calf (antlerless)
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Where: Hunt Area 126 — Lost Springs; 18% public of 3,517,299 acres
Season (2023): Aug 15 – Dec 31, 2023
Nonresident tags (2023): 31; for 47 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025): 38%; of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2023 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 31 tags, 47 first-choice applicants. Source: 2023 Demand Report · p. 3.

Points	Your chance	Applicants	Drawn
0	66%	—	—

Tags ÷ applicants. A dash means Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$303

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$15

Total if drawn

$324.50

Refunded if unsuccessful

$288

At the 2023 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $332.24 (enough points to draw) to $332.24 (lowest published odds).

Nonresident big game application fee (per species applied for) · paid at application $15 source

Conservation stamp (annual; required with any hunting license) · paid if drawn $21.50 source

Nonresident cow/calf elk license (reduced price) · paid at application, refundable $288 source

Next application window: opens Jan 2, closes Feb 2, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 21. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.

Seasons (2023)

Split 1: Aug 15 – Dec 31, 2023 Cow or calf; also valid in that portion of Area 117 south of U.S. Highway 16 p. 24

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 126, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 955 hunters and 367 elk taken in 2025 — 38% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 126 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: Elk 2025 Harvest Report Elk 2024 Harvest Report

As a lower choice

2nd choice

Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 0.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The reduced price draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Source
2023	31	47	1.5	—	2023 Demand Report · p. 3
2022	30	34	1.1	—	2022 Demand Report · p. 3
2021	23	27	1.2	—	2021 Demand Report · p. 3

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 126

Type 8 — Cow or calf valid on private land Any legal weapon

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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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