About DrawGeek

Every western state publishes what happened in its big game draw: how many people applied for each hunt at each point level, and how many of them drew. The reports are PDFs and spreadsheets, a different layout in every state and every few years. DrawGeek reads them into one format so a hunt's history fits on one page.

9,758 hunts · 8 states · 841 agency reports · draws 2018–2026

What the numbers are

Applicant and draw counts are copied from each state's draw report. Harvest figures are copied from the same agency's harvest report and matched on the hunt code. Where a report prints its own totals, the rows are checked against them, and a hunt whose rows don't add up is left out rather than patched. A number the agency didn't print shows as a dash.

What the site does not do

It does not predict your odds. There is no model here. A page tells you what happened at your point level in past draws, and the trend line on each hunt is the record of past cutoffs. Point creep, a change in quota or a rule change can make next year different, and the agency's current regulations are the word on how to apply.

There is no staff of guides and no field testing, and no hunt is promoted over another. How each state's report is read lists exactly which columns we use and what we can't show.

Corrections

If a figure doesn't match the report it links to, tell us which hunt and year. It gets checked against the report and fixed if we copied it wrong.