Hunt area 116 elk, type 7 (Cow Or Calf)

Hunt code
E-116-7
Unit
116, North Black Hills
Weapon
Any weapon
Draw years
2021–2024

Not offered in the draw after 2024. The figures below are its last draws.

In 2024, 125 residents applied as their first choice for 316 licenses, so every first-choice applicant drew.

In 2024, 83 nonresidents applied as their first choice for 60 licenses: roughly 72% of them drew, since first choices are drawn before any second choice.

Harvest success in 2023 was 38.7%.

Year by year

YearPermitsResidentsNonresidents
AppliedDrewPts neededAppliedDrewPts needed
2024376125––83––
2023278103––58––
202227482––68––
202127682––56––

Harvest

YearHuntersHarvestSuccess
20232228638.7%

Reading these numbers

Nonresident elk, deer and antelope, and everyone's moose and bighorn sheep: 75% of each hunt's licenses go to the preference-point draw, highest points first (party points are averaged), and the other 25% are drawn at random among everyone who missed, points ignored. Residents draw elk, deer and antelope at random with no points; mountain goat, bison and the doe/fawn, cow/calf and ewe/lamb licenses are random for everyone. Nonresident 'special' licenses cost more and are drawn as a separate pool (hunt codes ending -S).

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Other hunts in unit 116

Units listed next to it

In WGFD's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.