Unit 79 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM079O3R
- Unit
- 79
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 0 points: the report shows 31 of 64 drew at that level.
In 2026, nonresidents needed 0 points: the report shows 1 of 13 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 12.5%.
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 | |
| 4 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 100% | 11 | 9 | 82% |
| 0 | 64 | 31 | 48% | 13 | 1 | 8% |
| All | 88 | 55 | 63% | 32 | 17 | 53% |
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 | 100 | 88 | 55 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 0 |
| 2025 | 100 | 80 | 55 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 0 |
| 2024 | 100 | 80 | 64 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 0 |
| 2023 | 100 | 77 | 57 | 0 | 25 | 19 | 0 |
| 2022 | 100 | 73 | 73 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 |
| 2021 | 100 | 62 | 61 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 0 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | 11 | 12.5% |
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 79
- Unit 79 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM079O1A)(deer)
- Unit 79 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM079O1M)(deer)
- Unit 79 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM079O2R)(deer)
- Unit 79 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM079O3R)(deer)
- Unit 79 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM079O4R)(deer)
- Unit 79 buck pronghorn, archery (hunt code AM079O1A)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM079O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM079O1M)
- Unit 79 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM079O1R)
- Unit 79 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM079O2R)
- Unit 79 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM079O1X)(moose)
- Unit 79 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF079O1M)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O1R)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O2R)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O3R)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O4R)
- Unit 79 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF079P5R)(deer)
- Unit 79 doe pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AF079P5R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE079V1A)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 76 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF076O2R)
- Unit 76 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF076O3R)
- Unit 77 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF077O1R)
- Unit 77 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF077O2R)
- Unit 80 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF080O2R)
- Unit 80 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF080O3R)
- Unit 81 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF081O2R)
- Unit 81 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF081O3R)