Unit 3 cow elk, muzzleloader
- Hunt code
- EF003O1M
- Unit
- 3
- Weapon
- Muzzleloader
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
No residents applied in 2026.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
Harvest success in 2025 was 0%.
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 | 20 | 0 | 0 | Leftover | 0 | 0 | Leftover |
| 2025 | 20 | 2 | 2 | Leftover | 0 | 0 | Leftover |
| 2024 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 | 3 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2022 | 10 | 3 | 3 | Choice 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2 | 2 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | 0 | 0% |
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)
- 20242024-Primary-ELK-Post-Draw-Report(draw)
- 20232023ElkDrawRecap(draw)
- 20222022ElkDrawRecap(draw)
- 20212021ElkDrawRecap(draw)
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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, 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)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003W1R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 1 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF001O1M)
- Unit 1 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM001O1M)
- Unit 2 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF002O1M)
- Unit 2 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM002O1M)
- Unit 4 either-sex elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EE004O1M)
- Unit 4 either-sex elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EE004P1M)
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005O4R)
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005W1R)