Unit 43 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF043O3R
- Unit
- 43
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 81 of 81 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
In 2026, 16 of 16 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 14.1%.
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% | – | – | – |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 1 | 7 | 7 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 0 | 71 | 71 | 100% | 13 | 13 | 100% |
| All | 81 | 81 | 100% | 16 | 16 | 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 | 120 | 81 | 81 | Choice 2 | 16 | 16 | Choice 2 |
| 2025 | 215 | 82 | 82 | Leftover | 13 | 13 | Leftover |
| 2024 | 250 | 52 | 52 | Leftover | 16 | 16 | Leftover |
| 2023 | 250 | 64 | 64 | Leftover | 14 | 14 | Leftover |
| 2022 | 820 | 196 | 196 | Leftover | 61 | 61 | Leftover |
| 2021 | 795 | 254 | 254 | Leftover | 86 | 86 | Leftover |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | 28 | 14.1% |
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.
- 2022CPW drew this hunt together with EF043O2R, EF043O4R from one shared pool of 820 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 216 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EF043O2R, EF043O4R from one shared pool of 795 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 233 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
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 43
- Unit 43 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM043O1M)(deer)
- Unit 43 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM043E1R)(deer)
- Unit 43 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM043O2R)(deer)
- Unit 43 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM043O3R)(deer)
- Unit 43 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM043O4R)(deer)
- Unit 43 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM043O1M)
- Unit 43 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM043O1X)(moose)
- Unit 43 cow elk, archery (hunt code EF043V1A)
- Unit 43 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF043O1M)
- Unit 43 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF043O1R)
- Unit 43 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF043O2R)
- Unit 43 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF043O4R)
- Unit 43 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF043P5R)
- Unit 43 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF043O1A)(moose)
- Unit 43 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF043O1M)(moose)
- Unit 43 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF043O1R)(moose)
- Unit 43 doe deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DF043K1M)(deer)
- Unit 43 doe deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DF043O1M)(deer)
- Unit 43 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF043K2R)(deer)
- Unit 43 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF043K3R)(deer)
- Unit 43 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF043O2R)(deer)
- Unit 43 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF043O3R)(deer)
- Unit 43 either-sex deer, archery (hunt code DE043O1A)(deer)
- Unit 43 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE043P2R)(deer)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- 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)
- Unit 44 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF044O1R)
- Unit 44 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF044O2R)
- Unit 45 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF045O2R)
- Unit 45 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF045O3R)