Unit 3 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM003O1R
- Unit
- 3
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2024–2025
Not offered in the draw after 2025. The figures below are its last draws.
In 2025, residents needed 0 points: the report shows 17 of 216 drew at that level.
In 2025, nonresidents needed 2 points: the report shows 16 of 150 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 18.6%.
2025 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 | |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 7 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 7 | 6 | 86% |
| 4 | – | – | – | 13 | 11 | 85% |
| 3 | 25 | 25 | 100% | 84 | 65 | 77% |
| 2 | 74 | 62 | 84% | 150 | 16 | 11% |
| 1 | 172 | 167 | 97% | 95 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 216 | 17 | 8% | 105 | 0 | 0% |
| All | 494 | 278 | 56% | 456 | 100 | 22% |
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 | ||
| 2025 | 400 | 494 | 278 | 0 | 456 | 100 | 2 |
| 2024 | 400 | 495 | 275 | 0 | 411 | 98 | 2 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 387 | 72 | 18.6% |
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
- 2025PostDrawRecapReport_ELK-25_05172025_0612(draw)
- 20252025 Elk Statewide Harvest Final(harvest)
- 20242024-Primary-ELK-Post-Draw-Report(draw)
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Other hunts in unit 3
- Unit 3 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM003O1M)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O2R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O3R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O4R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W1R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W2R)(deer)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, archery (hunt code AM003O1A)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, muzzleloader (hunt code AM003O1M)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003P5R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W2R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O2R)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O3R)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O4R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF003O1M)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003E1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003L1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O1R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O2R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O3R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O4R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003P5R)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003W1R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 1 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE001E1R)
- Unit 1 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF001L1R)
- Unit 2 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE002E1R)
- Unit 2 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF002L1R)
- Unit 4 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE004O4R)
- Unit 4 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE004W1R)
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005O4R)
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005W1R)