Unit 44 either-sex elk, archery

Hunt code
EE044O1A
Unit
44
Weapon
Archery
Draw years
2025–2026

In 2026, 357 of 357 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.

In 2026, 461 of 461 nonresidents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.

Harvest success in 2025 was 16%.

2026 draw by point level

First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.

Show residents or nonresidents
PointsResidents
AppliedDrewRate
911100%
811100%
622100%
511100%
488100%
344100%
21414100%
14444100%
0282282100%
All357357100%
PointsNonresidents
AppliedDrewRate
911100%
522100%
466100%
366100%
21717100%
18585100%
0344344100%
All461461100%

Residents: Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.

Nonresidents: Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.

Year by year

Permits are the hunt's total; CPW doesn't split them by residency in this report.

YearPermitsResidentsNonresidents
AppliedDrewPts neededAppliedDrewPts needed
20261,000357357Choice 2461461Choice 2
202580034534504924370
0120252026
ResidentsNonresidentsPoints needed, by year: the trend of past cutoffs, not a forecast.

Harvest

YearHuntersHarvestSuccess
202579812816%

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.

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Other hunts in unit 44

Units listed next to it

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