Unit 851 cow elk, muzzleloader

Hunt code
EF851O1M
Unit
851
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Draw years
2021–2023

Not offered in the draw after 2023. The figures below are its last draws.

No residents applied in 2023.

No nonresidents applied in 2023.

Year by year

Permits are the hunt's total; CPW doesn't split them by residency in this report.

YearPermitsResidentsNonresidents
AppliedDrewPts neededAppliedDrewPts needed
2023500Choice 300Choice 2
2022510Choice 200None Drawn
2021511Choice 200None Drawn

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.

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Other hunts in unit 851

Units listed next to it

In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.