Unit 161 cow moose, archery
- Hunt code
- MF161O1A
- Unit
- 161
- Weapon
- Archery
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 15 of 131 residents drew (11%). A weighted random draw among applicants with 3 or more preference points, so there is no single point cutoff.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
Harvest success in 2025 was 80%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | 43% |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | 50% |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | 50% |
| 6 | 15 | 1 | 7% |
| 5 | 7 | 1 | 14% |
| 4 | 18 | 1 | 6% |
| 3 | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| 2 | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| 1 | 17 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 18 | 0 | 0% |
| All | 131 | 15 | 11% |
Residents: A weighted random draw among applicants with 3 or more preference points, so there is no single point cutoff.
Nonresidents: No first-choice applicants.
Year by year
| Year | Permits | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Pts needed | Applied | Drew | Pts needed | ||
| 2026 | 16 | 131 | 15 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2025 | 16 | 104 | 15 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2024 | 19 | 160 | 19 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2023 | 19 | 143 | 19 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2022 | 18 | 151 | 18 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
| 2021 | 14 | 171 | 14 | 3+ Pref Points | 0 | 0 | No Apps |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
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.
- 2025–2026CPW drew this hunt together with MF161O1M, MF161O1R from one shared pool of 16 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 5 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2024CPW drew this hunt together with MF161O1M, MF161O1R from one shared pool of 19 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 4 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2023CPW drew this hunt together with MF161O1M, MF161O1R from one shared pool of 19 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 1 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2022CPW drew this hunt together with MF161O1M, MF161O1R from one shared pool of 18 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 3 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
- 2021CPW drew this hunt together with MF161O1M, MF161O1R from one shared pool of 14 licenses, so the applicant and point numbers are for the whole pool; 2 of the pool's licenses went to this hunt code.
Sources
- 2026PostDrawRecapReport_MOOSE-26_05062026_1222(draw)
- 2025PostDrawRecapReport_MOOSE-25_05072025_1354(draw)
- 20252025 Statewide Moose Harvest(harvest)
- 20242024-Primary-MOOSE-Post-Draw-Report(draw)
- 20232023MooseDrawRecap(draw)
- 20222022MooseDrawRecap(draw)
- 20212021MooseDrawRecap(draw)
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Other hunts in unit 161
- Unit 161 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM161E1R)(deer)
- Unit 161 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM161O1R)(deer)
- Unit 161 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM161O2R)(deer)
- Unit 161 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM161O3R)(deer)
- Unit 161 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM161O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 161 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM161O1X)
- Unit 161 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF161O3R)(elk)
- Unit 161 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF161O4R)(elk)
- Unit 161 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF161P3R)(elk)
- Unit 161 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF161P4R)(elk)
- Unit 161 cow moose, muzzleloader (hunt code MF161O1M)
- Unit 161 cow moose, rifle (hunt code MF161O1R)
- Unit 161 doe pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AF161O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 161 either-sex elk, rifle (hunt code EE161O4R)(elk)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.