Wyoming Elk 54-6 — Hunt Area 54, Type 6
Cow or calf · Bald Ridge
- What you may take
- Cow or calf (antlerless)
- Weapon
- Any legal weapon
- Season (2026)
- Oct 1–31, 2026
- Nonresident tags (2026)
- 8
- for 19 first-choice applicants
- Hunter success here (2025)
- 69%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2026 draw
Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 8 tags, 19 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 2.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 42% | — | — |
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)
At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $345.12 (enough points to draw) to $345.12 (lowest published odds).
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)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Hunt Area 54, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 284 hunters and 195 elk taken in 2025 — 69% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 54 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 | 76 | 41 | 54% | 8.7 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 19 | 2.4 | — | 2026 Demand Report · p. 2 |
| 2025 | 16 | 47 | 2.9 | — | 2025 Demand Report · p. 2 |
| 2024 | 16 | 29 | 1.8 | — | 2024 Demand Report · p. 1 |
| 2023 | 24 | 59 | 2.5 | — | 2023 Demand Report · p. 2 |
| 2022 | 24 | 43 | 1.8 | — | 2022 Demand Report · p. 1 |
| 2021 | 24 | 38 | 1.6 | — | 2021 Demand Report · p. 1 |
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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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