Unit 73 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF073O4R
- Unit
- 73
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 0 points: the report shows 3 of 4 drew at that level.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
Harvest success in 2025 was 37.5%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 0 | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| All | 10 | 9 | 90% |
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 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2025 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2024 | 10 | 5 | 5 | Choice 2 | 0 | 0 | Choice 2 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2022 | 10 | 98 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 10 | 101 | 6 | 4 | 40 | 2 | 4 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 3 | 37.5% |
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.
- 2021–2022CPW drew this hunt together with EF073O2R, EF073O3R from one shared pool of 10 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 0 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 73
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 71 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF071O1R)
- Unit 71 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF071O2R)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O2R)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O3R)
- Unit 74 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF074O1R)
- Unit 74 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF074O2R)
- Unit 75 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF075O1R)
- Unit 75 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF075O2R)