Wyoming Elk 84-7 — Hunt Area 84, Type 7

Cow or calf valid on private land in Area 84 · Lower Hoback

What you may take
Cow or calf valid on private land in Area 84 (antlerless)
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Where
Hunt Area 84 — Lower Hoback
92% public of 253,309 acres
Season (2026)
Aug 15 – Jan 31, 2027
Nonresident tags (2026)
40
for 3 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
37%
of everyone who hunted the area

Showing nonresident results (Reduced price class). Switch to resident · Reduced price Landowner reduced price

Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 3 of 40 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. 40 tags, 3 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 2.

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)

Split 1: Aug 15 – Jan 31, 2027 Cow or calf valid on private land in Area 84; also valid in that portion of Area 85 on or within 200 yards of irrigated land north of Fall Creek p. 14

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 84, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 1,343 hunters and 499 elk taken in 2025 — 37% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 84 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 7 120 64 53% 8.1

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 — 37.0 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 40 3 0.1 2026 Demand Report · p. 2
2025 40 7 0.2 2025 Demand Report · p. 2
2024 40 4 0.1 2024 Demand Report · p. 2
2023 40 2 0.1 2023 Demand Report · p. 2
2022 40 2 0.1 2022 Demand Report · p. 2
2021 36 3 0.1 2021 Demand Report · p. 2

Tags left over after the main draws: 2026: 196 tags.

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 84

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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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