Unit 72 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF072O3R
- Unit
- 72
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 10 of 10 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
In 2026, 12 of 12 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 18.2%.
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% |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| 0 | 7 | 7 | 100% | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| All | 10 | 10 | 100% | 12 | 12 | 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 | 30 | 10 | 10 | Choice 2 | 12 | 12 | Choice 2 |
| 2025 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 2 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 18.2% |
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 EF072O2R, EF072O4R from one shared pool of 10 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 4 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EF072O2R, EF072O4R from one shared pool of 10 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 3 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 72
- Unit 72 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM072O1A)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM072O1M)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O2R)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O3R)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O4R)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072P2R)(deer)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072P3R)(deer)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O2R)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O4R)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072P5R)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P2R)(deer)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P3R)(deer)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P4R)(deer)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P5R)(deer)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 70 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE070P1R)
- Unit 70 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE070P4R)
- Unit 71 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF071O1R)
- Unit 71 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF071O2R)
- Unit 73 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF073O2R)
- Unit 73 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF073O3R)
- Unit 74 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF074O1R)
- Unit 74 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF074O2R)