Wyoming Elk · Hunt Area 23 Rattlesnake

Wyoming Hunt Area 23 covers 810,586 acres and lies 28 miles west of Mills. 51% of it is public land, mostly BLM (42%) and state land (9%). In 2025, 479 people hunted elk here and took 204, a 43% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 23-1, put up 13 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 154 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 13 points.

PointsYour Wyoming preference pointsYour points

NR Tags, 2026

206

11 licenses

Applicants

303

first choice, NR

Hunter Success

43%

2025, all licenses

Public Land

51%

42% BLM

Size

1,267 mi²

810,586 acres

Mills Glenrock 19 22 24 120 122 128 23

43%

hunter success · 2025

479 hunters, 204 elk

43%hunter success 2025 · 479 hunters, 204 elk

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

23-1

Regular · any elk

Any elk

Success: 64%
Season: Oct 1–21
Tags / Apps: 13 / 154
If Drawn: $728.50

Success: 28%
Season: Oct 1–21
Tags / Apps: 32 / 6
If Drawn: $728.50

Success: 28%
Season: Oct 1–21
Tags / Apps: 13 / 0
If Drawn: $1,986.50

Success: 28%
Season: Oct 1–21
Tags / Apps: 32 / 80
If Drawn: $324.50

Every License in Hunt Area 23

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

	What	Season			Tags / Apps
23-1 Regular	Any elk	Oct 1–21	2%	13 ▲3	13 / 154	64%
23-1 Special	Any elk	Oct 1–21	10%	7 ▼2	9 / 27	64%
23-1 Landowner	Any elk	Oct 1–21	100%	0	28 / 6	64%
23-4 Regular	Antlerless elk	Oct 1–21	100%	0	32 / 6	28%
23-4 Special	Antlerless elk	Oct 1–21	100%	—	13 / 0	28%
23-4 Landowner	Antlerless elk	Oct 1–21	100%	—	32 / 0	28%
23-6 Reduced price	Cow or calf	Oct 1–21	40%	—	32 / 80	28%
23-6 Landowner reduced price	Cow or calf	Oct 1–21	100%	—	32 / 0	28%
23-9 Regular	Any elk, archery only	Sep 1–30	6% (small sample)	7 ▼5	4 / 22	27%
23-9 Special	Any elk, archery only	Sep 1–30	0% (small sample)	6 ▲2	3 / 7	27%
23-9 Landowner	Any elk, archery only	Sep 1–30	100%	0	8 / 1	27%

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 23-7.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $728.50 ($707 to apply) · Special $1,986.50 ($1,965 to apply) · Reduced price $324.50 ($303 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Feb 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year	Hunters	Elk	Success	Days/Animal
2025	479	204	43%	22.9
2024	526	291	55%	16
2023	404	218	54%	22.3
2022	380	193	51%	15.1
2021	379	196	52%	18.8

2025 by License	Hunters	Elk	Success
Type 1	140	90	64%
Type 4	180	51	28%
Type 6	172	49	28%
Type 9	52	14	27%

2025 split: archery 14 (7%), firearm 190 (93%) · residents 160 from 397 hunters, nonresidents 44 from 82 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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: WGFD 2025 Elk Harvest Report; WGFD 2024 Elk Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Elk Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private	398,558 ac	49%
BLM	337,634 ac	42%
State land	71,643 ac	9%
County or city land	1,760 ac	<1%
Other public	980 ac	<1%
Bureau of Reclamation	10 ac	<1%
National Wildlife Refuge	0 ac	<1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

Next Door

▸ Sources 14

WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2025 Elk Harvest Report harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2024 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2023 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2022 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2021 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Elk Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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