Unit 50 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM050O2R
- Unit
- 50
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 2 points: the report shows 30 of 43 drew at that level.
In 2026, nonresidents needed 3 points: the report shows 4 of 19 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 52.9%.
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 | |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 67% | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| 5 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| 3 | 7 | 6 | 86% | 19 | 4 | 21% |
| 2 | 43 | 30 | 70% | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| 1 | 36 | 0 | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 55 | 0 | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| All | 145 | 39 | 27% | 66 | 14 | 21% |
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 | 70 | 145 | 39 | 2 | 66 | 14 | 3 |
| 2025 | 80 | 150 | 45 | 2 | 66 | 15 | 2 |
| 2024 | 80 | 126 | 43 | 1 | 40 | 16 | 1 |
| 2023 | 80 | 129 | 47 | 1 | 50 | 18 | 1 |
| 2022 | 160 | 293 | 87 | 1 | 90 | 29 | 1 |
| 2021 | 160 | 302 | 102 | 1 | 96 | 19 | 1 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | 37 | 52.9% |
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 EM050O3R, EM050O4R from one shared pool of 160 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 77 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EM050O3R, EM050O4R from one shared pool of 160 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 58 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 50
- Unit 50 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM050O1M)(deer)
- Unit 50 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM050O2R)(deer)
- Unit 50 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM050O3R)(deer)
- Unit 50 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM050O1M)
- Unit 50 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM050O1R)
- Unit 50 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM050O3R)
- Unit 50 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM050O4R)
- Unit 50 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM050O1X)(moose)
- Unit 50 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF050O1M)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050L1R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050O2R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050O3R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050O4R)
- Unit 50 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF050P5R)
- Unit 50 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF050O1A)(moose)
- Unit 50 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF050O1M)(moose)
- Unit 50 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF050O1R)(moose)
- Unit 50 either-sex deer, archery (hunt code DE050O1A)(deer)
- Unit 50 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE050O1A)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 48 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF048O2R)
- Unit 48 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF048O3R)
- Unit 49 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF049O2R)
- Unit 49 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF049O3R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O1R)
- Unit 51 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF051O2R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O2R)
- Unit 52 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF052O3R)