Wyoming Elk 8-7 — Hunt Area 8, Type 7
Cow or calf valid on private land · Boulder Ridge
- What you may take
- Cow or calf valid on private land (antlerless)
- Weapon
- Any legal weapon
- Season (2023)
- Aug 15 – Jan 31, 2024
- Nonresident tags (2023)
- 31
- for 2 first-choice applicants
- Hunter success here (2025)
- 50%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2023 draw
Undersubscribed: 2 of 31 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2023. 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. 31 tags, 2 first-choice applicants. Source: 2023 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)
At the 2023 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $324.50 (enough points to draw) .
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)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Hunt Area 8, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 377 hunters and 189 elk taken in 2025 — 50% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 8 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
Tags left after higher choices exceed the applicants at this choice — 29.0 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 | 2 | 0.1 | — | 2023 Demand Report · p. 1 |
| 2022 | 16 | 0 | 0.0 | — | 2022 Demand Report · p. 1 |
Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 8
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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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This page is informational only. Draw rules, quotas, fees, and deadlines are set by the state agency and change by commission action — confirm everything on the agency's own site before you apply, and apply through the agency, not here. We disclaim all liability for reliance on this page.