Unit 501 bull elk, rifle
- Hunt code
- EM501O4R
- Unit
- 501
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 2 points: the report shows 3 of 19 drew at that level.
In 2026, nonresidents needed 8 points: the report shows 4 of 5 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 16.7%.
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 | |
| 8 | – | – | – | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| 6 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | 100% | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 2 | 19 | 3 | 16% | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 1 | 13 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 12 | 0 | 0% | – | – | – |
| All | 55 | 14 | 25% | 22 | 4 | 18% |
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 | 20 | 55 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 8 |
| 2025 | 20 | 38 | 12 | 2 | 21 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 20 | 28 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 20 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 85 | 214 | 46 | 2 | 58 | 21 | 2 |
| 2021 | 85 | 271 | 44 | 2 | 75 | 20 | 2 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | 3 | 16.7% |
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 EM501O2R, EM501O3R from one shared pool of 85 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 15 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with EM501O2R, EM501O3R from one shared pool of 85 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 10 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 501
- Unit 501 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM501O4R)(deer)
- Unit 501 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM501O1M)
- Unit 501 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM501O1R)
- Unit 501 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM501O2R)
- Unit 501 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM501O3R)
- Unit 501 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM501S1X)(moose)
- Unit 501 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF501O1M)
- Unit 501 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF501L1R)
- Unit 501 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF501O2R)
- Unit 501 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF501O3R)
- Unit 501 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF501O4R)
- Unit 501 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF501P5R)
- Unit 501 cow moose, archery (hunt code MF501S1A)(moose)
- Unit 501 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF501S1M)(moose)
- Unit 501 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF501S1R)(moose)
- Unit 501 doe deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DF501O1M)(deer)
- Unit 501 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF501O2R)(deer)
- Unit 501 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF501O3R)(deer)
- Unit 501 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE501O1A)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 481 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF481O2R)
- Unit 481 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF481O3R)
- Unit 500 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF500L1R)
- Unit 500 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF500O2R)
- Unit 511 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF511O1R)
- Unit 511 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF511O2R)
- Unit 521 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF521O1R)
- Unit 521 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF521O2R)