Unit 51 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF051O1R
- Unit
- 51
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 23 of 23 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
Harvest success in 2025 was 16.1%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 100% |
| 0 | 15 | 15 | 100% |
| All | 23 | 23 | 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 | 40 | 23 | 23 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | Choice 2 |
| 2025 | 40 | 24 | 23 | Choice 2 | 1 | 1 | Choice 2 |
| 2024 | 40 | 20 | 20 | Choice 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 40 | 12 | 12 | Choice 2 | 3 | 3 | Choice 2 |
| 2022 | 30 | 25 | 24 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | Choice 2 |
| 2021 | 30 | 25 | 25 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | 5 | 16.1% |
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.
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 51
- Unit 51 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM051O1M)(deer)
- Unit 51 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM051O2R)(deer)
- Unit 51 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM051O3R)(deer)
- Unit 51 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM051O4R)(deer)
- Unit 51 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM051P5R)(deer)
- Unit 51 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM051O1M)
- Unit 51 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM051O1R)
- Unit 51 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM051O2R)
- Unit 51 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM051O3R)
- Unit 51 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM051O4R)
- Unit 51 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM051O1X)(moose)
- Unit 51 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF051O1M)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O2R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O3R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O4R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051P5R)
- Unit 51 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF051O1A)(moose)
- Unit 51 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF051O1M)(moose)
- Unit 51 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF051L1R)(moose)
- Unit 51 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF051O1R)(moose)
- Unit 51 doe deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DF051O1M)(deer)
- Unit 51 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF051P5R)(deer)
- Unit 51 either-sex deer, archery (hunt code DE051O1A)(deer)
- Unit 51 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE051O1A)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 49 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF049O2R)
- Unit 49 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF049O3R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050L1R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050O2R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O2R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O3R)
- Unit 53 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE053P1R)
- Unit 53 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE053P4R)