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.

Show residents or nonresidents
PointsResidents
AppliedDrewRate
2011100%
811100%
611100%
511100%
422100%
333100%
233100%
12424100%
011711497%
All15315098%
PointsNonresidents
AppliedDrewRate
1811100%
311100%
211100%
188100%
0363392%
All474494%

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.

YearPermitsResidentsNonresidents
AppliedDrewPts neededAppliedDrewPts needed
2026500153150Choice 34744Choice 3
2025500169167Choice 33939Choice 3
2024500134126Leftover2525Leftover
2023475130123Leftover3332Leftover
20221,425516492Choice 3129121Choice 3
20211,425577559Choice 210195Choice 2

Harvest

YearHuntersHarvestSuccess
2025493285.7%

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.

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Other hunts in unit 7

Units listed next to it

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