Wyoming Elk 33-6 — Hunt Area 33, Type 6

Cow or calf · Middle Fork

What you may take
Cow or calf (antlerless)
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Also open Sep 1–30, 2026 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
Where
Hunt Area 33 — Middle Fork
56% public of 400,465 acres
Seasons (2026)
Archery Sep 1–30, 2026 · Nov 7 – Dec 31, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
32
for 8 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
30%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 8 of 32 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. 32 tags, 8 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 1.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100%

Fewer applicants than tags. 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 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $324.50 (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 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 (2026)

Special archery: Sep 1–30, 2026 Special archery season (archery license required): Cow or calf p. 5
Split 1: Nov 7 – Dec 31, 2026 Cow or calf p. 5

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 33, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 402 hunters and 120 elk taken in 2025 — 30% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 33 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 6 142 35 25% 24.3

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
100%

Tags left after higher choices exceed the applicants at this choice — 24.0 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
2026 32 8 0.3 2026 Demand Report · p. 1
2025 48 9 0.2 2025 Demand Report · p. 1
2024 48 2 0.0 2024 Demand Report · p. 1
2023 48 10 0.2 2023 Demand Report · p. 1
2022 48 12 0.3 2022 Demand Report · p. 1
2021 48 12 0.3 2021 Demand Report · p. 1

Tags left over after the main draws: 2026: 144 tags.

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 33

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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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