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HuntBank is a beta for western big game hunters, built to find out whether you want a tool like this. Today it plans your deer points in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, year by year, and tells you plainly when the data is thin. Why we built it
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Each list runs from a likely draw down to a long shot: A is 70–100%, B is 35–70%, C is 10–35%, D is under 10%. Tap a unit for details.

Scores rank hunts within one state only. Wyoming and Utah show a trophy score. Colorado shows a balance score instead, because its herd reports have no age data. Full explanation in Methods

Wyoming Deer
2027 draw · 33 real mule deer hunt areas, tapered by odds
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Best available, down to long shots33 real mule deer hunt areas
Colorado Deer
2027 draw · 644 real public-land hunt codes, tapered by odds
Live Odds
Best available, down to long shotsRifle, CPW 2026 draw results
Utah Deer
2027 draw · All 83 Limited Entry + 106 General Season hunt codes, tapered by odds
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Limited entry: preferred weapon (Any Legal Weapon)Nonresident
Limited entry: secondary weapon (Archery)
General season: preferred weapon (Any Legal Weapon)Nonresident
General season: secondary weapon (Archery)
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Window: July 1 to Nov 2, 2026. Wyoming does not auto-award a point if you skip the draw. You have to buy it yourself in this window, through the WGFD website.
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Wyoming deer and pronghorn draw
Opened Jan 2, closed June 1, 2026
Expected to reopen Jan 2, 2027. It has historically closed June 1, so confirm the exact date with WGFD.
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Colorado big game primary draw
Opened Mar 1, closed Apr 7, 2026
2027 dates not yet announced by CPW. It has historically opened in early March, so check cpw.state.co.us before assuming.
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Utah big game draw
Opened Mar 19, closed Apr 23, 2026
2027 dates not yet announced by Utah DWR. It has historically opened in mid-to-late March, so check wildlife.utah.gov before assuming.
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Source: WGFD "Application Dates & Deadlines," the Colorado Parks & Wildlife primary draw page, and the Utah DWR big game guidebook, all checked live rather than written from memory. 2027 dates get added once each agency publishes them. Nothing here is guessed.
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Where the odds come from

Wyoming. 2026 nonresident deer draw reports from Wyoming Game and Fish. Each hunt area has two pools, one for top point holders and one random draw open to everyone, and your odds combine both. 33 mule deer areas are covered.

Colorado. 2026 nonresident draw results from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, first choice only, across 644 public-land hunt codes, filtered to the weapon you picked in Profile. When fewer than 10 people applied at your point level, a 100% result shows as "95%+" because that's too few to promise a sure thing. Private-land-only hunts are left out.

Utah limited entry. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources draw data, run through a model of how Utah actually draws: some permits go to the highest point holders, the rest go by a lottery weighted by points. We show the modeled odds rather than the raw ratio Utah prints, because the raw ratio is misleading when only a handful of people sit at a point level.

Utah general season. The same draw data, estimated by simulating the draw 300 times at each point level. That makes these numbers a little noisier, roughly plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Nonresident odds only for Wyoming and Colorado. If you pick either as your home state, those cards tell you the numbers don't apply to you.

What the scores mean

Trophy score (Wyoming and Utah) rates how good the deer in that herd tend to be, from 0 to 100. It's a ranking, not a grade: a 79 means the herd scores better than about 79% of the other scored hunts in that state.

In Wyoming it combines how many bucks there are per 100 does with the share of bucks old enough to fall in the two oldest age classes biologists record. In Utah it combines bucks per 100 does with the share of harvested bucks with 3 or more points.

A hunt with only a few hunters gets pulled toward the state average, so one lucky season with 5 hunters can't put it at the top of the list.

Balance score (Colorado) blends how often hunters fill their tag with bucks per 100 does. It is not a trophy score. Colorado's herd reports don't include age data, and a high buck:doe ratio alone doesn't tell you whether those bucks are mature.

No badge means we don't have herd data for that unit yet. It's ranked by how hard it is to draw with zero points instead, as a stand-in for how much hunters want it.

Scores rank hunts within one state. A Wyoming 80 and a Utah 80 aren't measured on the same ruler, and a Colorado balance score isn't comparable to either. Tap any unit on the Odds tab to see the numbers behind its score.

How the suggestions are picked

Each state's list shows four options across a range of odds, from a likely draw down to a long shot: A is 70–100%, B is 35–70%, C is 10–35%, D is under 10%. Within each range we show the highest-scoring unit.

How the plan looks ahead

States you mark "I won't hunt here" are left out of the plan, the odds lists, the unit pickers, and the deadline reminders. Your points for them, and any unit you had picked, are kept, and you can include the state again at any time in Profile.

The plan starts from 2026 draw results. Each year you apply and don't draw, you gain a point and move one step up the odds curve.

Point creep: Wyoming only, and only where the data supports it. In popular Wyoming units, the points needed in the regular Preference Point pool tend to rise every year as more hunters bank points. We parsed the 2023 to 2026 WGFD nonresident deer reports and tested how well those cutoffs can be predicted. What held up: across units that had a hard cutoff in all four years, the cutoff rose about 1 point a year, and assuming that pace beat assuming nothing moves (average miss 1.3 vs 1.4 points predicting 2026, 1.2 vs 1.7 predicting 2025, and 1.3 vs 2.7 two years out). What did not hold up: predicting each unit's own trend. With four years of history a unit's own slope did not beat the statewide pace, so every eligible unit gets the same assumed pace and the unit detail shows its actual cutoff history. One year can land about 1.5 points below to 2 above that pace, and beyond two years out the range is an extrapolation we could not test.

What is and isn't modeled. Modeled: Wyoming nonresident deer, regular license, units with a hard cutoff in the point pool in all four years that moved at least once, in the multi-year plan only. The Odds tab still shows 2026 results. Not modeled, and shown with 2026 results as-is: Wyoming units without a reliable trend (marked in the unit detail), the Wyoming Special license pool, Wyoming resident, Colorado and Utah. Colorado changes its draw rules in 2028 and that is not modeled either.

Because Wyoming cutoffs have been rising about as fast as hunters earn points, a unit that is out of reach today can stay out of reach. The plan says so, and shows when you would arrive if cutoffs stopped rising. Treat a projected draw year as the earliest realistic year.

A unit counts as drawable once your odds reach 70% and stay there. Your hunts-per-year setting decides how many states get an application each year, starting with whichever is closest to its goal. A milestone is a draw made with 10 or more points.

Shots in the dark. Some units, often the top-tier ones, have no points level where the odds hold up on enough real data. We call those a shot in the dark. The plan never schedules them and they don't use one of your hunts. Put in for them each year if you want the hunt, but don't plan your year around one unless you draw.

Weapon choice is set per state in Profile, since what you hunt with in Utah often isn't what you'd choose elsewhere. Utah residents see a note that General Season is typically an easy draw most years. That's information, not something added to the plan for you. It only shows up as a suggestion if your chosen strategy calls for it.

Colorado changes its draw rules for 2028, splitting permits between preference points and bonus points. The plan doesn't model that yet; everything assumes today's rules.

The plan is a suggestion, not an application. Nothing here applies for you.

Dates

Application windows come from each agency's published dates. Dates that haven't been announced yet are marked that way rather than guessed.

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