Unit 851 cow elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EF851W4R
- Unit
- 851
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
No residents applied in 2026.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | No Apps | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | No Apps | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | No Apps | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2023 | 4 | 46 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2022 | 6 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2021 | 4 | 55 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
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 851
- Unit 851 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM851O1A)(deer)
- Unit 851 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM851O1M)(deer)
- Unit 851 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM851O1R)(deer)
- Unit 851 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM851O2R)(deer)
- Unit 851 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM851W1R)(deer)
- Unit 851 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM851W2R)(deer)
- Unit 851 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM851O1M)
- Unit 851 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM851O1R)
- Unit 851 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM851O2R)
- Unit 851 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM851O3R)
- Unit 851 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM851O4R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF851O1M)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851L1R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851L2R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851L3R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851O3R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851W1R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851W2R)
- Unit 851 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF851W6R)
- Unit 851 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE851O1A)
- Unit 851 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE851J2R)
- Unit 851 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE851K2R)
- Unit 851 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE851K3R)
- Unit 851 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE851W1R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.