Unit 52 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF052P5R
- Unit
- 52
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 42 of 42 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 39.7%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 0 | 40 | 40 | 100% |
| All | 42 | 42 | 100% |
Residents: Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Nonresidents: None drawn.
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 | 65 | 42 | 42 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2025 | 75 | 51 | 51 | Choice 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 75 | 35 | 35 | Leftover | 1 | 1 | Leftover |
| 2023 | 75 | 44 | 44 | Choice 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 75 | 42 | 42 | Leftover | 1 | 1 | Leftover |
| 2021 | 75 | 32 | 32 | Leftover | 1 | 1 | Leftover |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | 23 | 39.7% |
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 52
- Unit 52 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM052O1A)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM052O1M)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM052O2R)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM052O3R)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM052O4R)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM052P2R)(deer)
- Unit 52 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM052P3R)(deer)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O2R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O3R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O4R)
- Unit 52 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF052O1A)(moose)
- Unit 52 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF052O1M)(moose)
- Unit 52 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF052L1R)(moose)
- Unit 52 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF052O1R)(moose)
- Unit 52 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF052P5R)(deer)
- Unit 52 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE052P6R)(deer)
- Unit 52 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE052O1A)
- Unit 52 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE052P1A)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050L1R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050O2R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O1R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O2R)
- Unit 53 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE053P1R)
- Unit 53 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE053P4R)
- Unit 54 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF054O1R)
- Unit 54 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF054O2R)