The names go into a pot and then when the drawing takes place you get a number assigned to you, number 1 being the best number. Then WY fish and wildlife will decide how many buffalo they want harvested and sends out permits to the people with the lowest number. It seems like a typical number if bull tags given out is about 100 or so to resident hunters and about 20 to non resident hunters. If they offer you a tag and you want it then you need to pay the $2500+ tag fee. The number of bull tags changes every year. It can even be 0 tags if they wanted/ needed to.