Unit 40 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF040P5R
- Unit
- 40
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 65 of 65 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
In 2026, 10 of 10 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 57.3%.
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 | |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 0 | 53 | 53 | 100% | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| All | 65 | 65 | 100% | 10 | 10 | 100% |
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.
| Year | Permits | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Pts needed | Applied | Drew | Pts needed | ||
| 2026 | 200 | 65 | 65 | Choice 2 | 10 | 10 | Choice 2 |
| 2025 | 200 | 77 | 77 | Choice 2 | 22 | 22 | Choice 2 |
| 2024 | 120 | 75 | 74 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2023 | 120 | 62 | 62 | Choice 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2022 | 100 | 66 | 58 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 0 |
| 2021 | 100 | 77 | 51 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 0 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 164 | 94 | 57.3% |
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 40
- Unit 40 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM040O1A)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM040O1M)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040O2R)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040O3R)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040O4R)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040P2R)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040P3R)(deer)
- Unit 40 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM040W1R)(deer)
- Unit 40 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF040O1M)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040L1R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040O1R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040O2R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040O3R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040O4R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040W1R)
- Unit 40 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF040W2R)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE040O1A)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EE040O1M)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE040O1R)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE040O2R)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE040O3R)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE040O4R)
- Unit 40 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE040W1R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 38 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF038L1R)
- Unit 38 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF038L2R)
- Unit 39 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF039O1R)
- Unit 39 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF039O2R)
- Unit 41 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE041P1R)
- Unit 41 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE041P4R)
- Unit 42 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF042O2R)
- Unit 42 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF042O3R)