Unit 500 bull elk, rifle

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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 EM500O2R, EM500O4R from one shared pool of 100 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 18 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
• 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EM500O2R, EM500O4R from one shared pool of 100 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 21 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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