Wyoming Elk 2-4 — Hunt Area 2, Type 4

Antlerless elk · Fortification

What you may take
Antlerless elk
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Where
Hunt Area 2 — Fortification
33% public of 251,318 acres
Seasons (2021)
Sep 18–27, 2021 · Oct 21 – Nov 1, 2021
Nonresident tags (2021)
10
for 6 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
51%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2021 draw

Undersubscribed: 6 of 10 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2021. 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. 10 tags, 6 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: 2021 Demand Report · p. 1.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 3 plus 2 party applications averaging just under 1 points, 2 drawn 3
1 100% 1 1
2–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not publish a count for that level — it prints exact counts around the cut and folds the rest into a band. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$707
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$15
Total if drawn
$728.50
Refunded if unsuccessful
$692

At the 2021 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $728.50 (enough points to draw) .

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 elk license (regular), includes fishing privileges · paid at application, refundable $692 source
Nonresident elk preference point · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $52 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $52 (Jul 1 – Nov 2, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 0-point cut.

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

Insufficient history (1 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2021)

Split 1: Sep 18–27, 2021 Antlerless elk p. 1
Split 2: Oct 21 – Nov 1, 2021 Antlerless elk p. 1

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 2, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 442 hunters and 224 elk taken in 2025 — 51% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 2 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
60%

Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 3.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The regular draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Wyoming 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
2021 10 6 0.6 0 3 tagsfrom 5 applications 2021 Demand Report · p. 1

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 2

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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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