Unit 61 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM061O1R
- Unit
- 61
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 15 points: the report shows 20 of 22 drew at that level. Another 20 residents with fewer points drew in the hybrid draw.
In 2026, nonresidents needed 27 points: the report shows 6 of 14 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 70.6%.
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 | |
| 30 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 29 | – | – | – | 6 | 6 | 100% |
| 28 | – | – | – | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| 27 | – | – | – | 14 | 6 | 43% |
| 26 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| 25 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 24 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 23 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | 100% | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 20 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | 100% | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| 17 | 9 | 9 | 100% | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 100% | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 15 | 22 | 20 | 91% | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 14 | 55 | 1 | 2% | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| 13 | 42 | 1 | 2% | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| 12 | 40 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 11 | 37 | 5 | 14% | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 10 | 44 | 2 | 5% | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| 9 | 46 | 2 | 4% | 8 | 0 | 0% |
| 8 | 75 | 5 | 7% | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| 7 | 54 | 1 | 2% | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| 6 | 42 | 0 | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0% |
| 5 | 57 | 3 | 5% | 22 | 0 | 0% |
| 4 | 30 | 0 | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| 3 | 55 | 0 | 0% | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| 2 | 46 | 0 | 0% | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| 1 | 51 | 0 | 0% | 31 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 71 | 0 | 0% | 40 | 0 | 0% |
| All | 812 | 84 | 10% | 321 | 20 | 6% |
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 | 130 | 812 | 84 | 15 | 321 | 20 | 27 |
| 2025 | 130 | 805 | 84 | 14 | 295 | 20 | 26 |
| 2024 | 130 | 674 | 84 | 13 | 253 | 20 | 25 |
| 2023 | 130 | 654 | 82 | 12 | 263 | 20 | 24 |
| 2022 | 130 | 676 | 84 | 12 | 220 | 20 | 24 |
| 2021 | 130 | 712 | 84 | 12 | 205 | 20 | 23 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | 89 | 70.6% |
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
- 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 61
- Unit 61 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM061O1A)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM061O1M)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM061O1R)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM061O2R)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM061O3R)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM061O4R)(deer)
- Unit 61 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM061P1R)(deer)
- Unit 61 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM061O1M)
- Unit 61 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM061O2R)
- Unit 61 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM061O3R)
- Unit 61 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM061O4R)
- Unit 61 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF061O1M)
- Unit 61 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF061O1R)
- Unit 61 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF061O2R)
- Unit 61 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF061O3R)
- Unit 61 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF061O4R)
- Unit 61 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF061P5R)
- Unit 61 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE061O1A)
- Unit 61 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE061E1R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 59 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF059O1R)
- Unit 59 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF059O2R)
- Unit 60 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE060O4R)
- Unit 60 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE060P1R)
- Unit 62 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE062O4R)
- Unit 62 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE062P1R)
- Unit 63 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF063O1R)
- Unit 63 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF063O2R)