Unit 3 either-sex elk, archery
- Hunt code
- EE003P1A
- Unit
- 3
- Weapon
- Archery
- Draw years
- 2025–2026
In 2026, 15 of 15 residents drew (100%). CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
In 2026, 192 of 192 nonresidents drew (100%). CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
Harvest success in 2025 was 21.8%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 20 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 10 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 6 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 5 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 20 | 20 | 100% |
| 0 | 10 | 10 | 100% | 159 | 159 | 100% |
| All | 15 | 15 | 100% | 192 | 192 | 100% |
Residents: CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
Nonresidents: CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
Year by year
Permits are the hunt's total; CPW doesn't split them by residency in this report.
| Year | Permits | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Pts needed | Applied | Drew | Pts needed | ||
| 2026 | 660 | 15 | 15 | Leftover | 192 | 192 | Leftover |
| 2025 | 660 | 24 | 24 | Leftover | 155 | 155 | Leftover |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 293 | 64 | 21.8% |
Reading these numbers
Colorado ranks first-choice applicants by preference points (one point for each year you miss your first choice), with nonresidents capped at a share of each hunt's licenses. Hunts that took 10+ resident points the year before and have 5+ licenses also run a hybrid draw: up to 20% of licenses go at random to applicants with at least 5 points. For moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat, each miss after 3 preference points adds a weighted point that improves a random draw instead; for those species the point level shown is preference plus weighted points. Numbers are adult first-choice applicants; youth and landowner (LPP) applicants are reported separately by CPW and left out.
Sources
- 2026PostDrawRecapReport_ELK-26_05142026_1426(draw)
- 2025PostDrawRecapReport_ELK-25_05172025_0612(draw)
- 20252025 Elk Statewide Harvest Final(harvest)
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Other hunts in unit 3
- Unit 3 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM003O1M)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O2R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O3R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O4R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W1R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W2R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, archery (hunt code AM003O1A)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, muzzleloader (hunt code AM003O1M)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003P5R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W2R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O1R)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O2R)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O3R)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O4R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF003O1M)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003E1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003L1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O2R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O3R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O4R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003P5R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.