Wyoming’s “hunt of a lifetime” gift: Super Tag tickets slide nicely into a stocking

The original story by Floyd Whiting for Sheridan Media.

If you’re down to the wire on holiday shopping and the person you’re buying for would rather be in the mountains than in a mall, Wyoming Game and Fish has a pretty on-brand, last-minute idea: buy them a Wyoming Super Tag raffle ticket and give them a shot at the kind of tag hunters brag about for the rest of their lives.

Here’s the deal. Every year, 11 winners get the opportunity to purchase a license to hunt one of Wyoming’s headline species. And the list reads like a bucket-list bingo card:

bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mountain goat, mule deer or white-tailed deer, wild bison, pronghorn, mountain lion, gray wolf, and black bear.

You can keep it simple and targeted: $10 gets one ticket for one species. Or you can go bigger with the $30 “Super Tag Trifecta” ticket, which gives the winner the chance to hunt three eligible species in one year’s hunting seasons—basically the hunting equivalent of hitting a three-leg parlay.

Game and Fish also leans hard on the “this actually does good” angle—and they’ve got receipts. Since the program launched in 2013, Super Tag has raised more than $12.5 million for conservation efforts in Wyoming, including $1.5 million in 2024 alone. The agency says the money stays in-state and goes toward the unglamorous-but-crucial stuff: habitat projects, big game surveys, and other conservation work that keeps wildlife populations healthy enough to hunt in the first place.

The clock is ticking, but you’ve still got time. Ticket sales run through Jan. 31, and winners are announced in mid-February—which means your stocking-stuffer gift can turn into a very loud February phone call. And if you’re the planning-ahead type (rare, but respected), tickets for the 2027 Super Tag go on sale in February 2026.

Want to make it feel more “gift” and less “hey I spent ten bucks”? Put it in their name, print the confirmation, tuck it into a card, and let them daydream about drawing the tag that turns next season into a story.

For details and purchases, Game and Fish directs people to their website.