Unit 7 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM007O3R
- Unit
- 7
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 150 of 153 residents drew (98%). Drawn out on choice 3: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
In 2026, 44 of 47 nonresidents drew (94%). Drawn out on choice 3: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Harvest success in 2025 was 5.7%.
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 | |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 18 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 100% | – | – | – |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 1 | 24 | 24 | 100% | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| 0 | 117 | 114 | 97% | 36 | 33 | 92% |
| All | 153 | 150 | 98% | 47 | 44 | 94% |
Residents: Drawn out on choice 3: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Nonresidents: Drawn out on choice 3: 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 | 500 | 153 | 150 | Choice 3 | 47 | 44 | Choice 3 |
| 2025 | 500 | 169 | 167 | Choice 3 | 39 | 39 | Choice 3 |
| 2024 | 500 | 134 | 126 | Leftover | 25 | 25 | Leftover |
| 2023 | 475 | 130 | 123 | Leftover | 33 | 32 | Leftover |
| 2022 | 1,425 | 516 | 492 | Choice 3 | 129 | 121 | Choice 3 |
| 2021 | 1,425 | 577 | 559 | Choice 2 | 101 | 95 | Choice 2 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 493 | 28 | 5.7% |
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 EM007O2R, EM007O4R from one shared pool of 1425 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 455 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EM007O2R, EM007O4R from one shared pool of 1425 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 422 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 7
- Unit 7 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM007O1M)(deer)
- Unit 7 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM007O2R)(deer)
- Unit 7 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM007O3R)(deer)
- Unit 7 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM007O4R)(deer)
- Unit 7 buck pronghorn, muzzleloader (hunt code AM007O1M)(pronghorn)
- Unit 7 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM007O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 7 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM007P1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 7 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM007O1M)
- Unit 7 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM007O1R)
- Unit 7 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM007O2R)
- Unit 7 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM007O4R)
- Unit 7 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM007G1X)(moose)
- Unit 7 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM007O1X)(moose)
- Unit 7 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM007S1X)(moose)
- Unit 7 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF007O1M)
- Unit 7 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF007L1R)
- Unit 7 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF007O2R)
- Unit 7 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF007O3R)
- Unit 7 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF007O4R)
- Unit 7 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF007P5R)
- Unit 7 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF007G1A)(moose)
- Unit 7 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF007O1A)(moose)
- Unit 7 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF007S1A)(moose)
- Unit 7 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF007G1M)(moose)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005O4R)
- Unit 5 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE005W1R)
- Unit 6 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE006O1R)
- Unit 6 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE006O4R)
- Unit 9 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF009L1R)
- Unit 9 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF009P5R)
- Unit 10 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE010E1R)
- Unit 10 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE010W1R)