Hunt code E-E-035-O4-R: 2026 Colorado either-sex elk, 4th rifle
E-E-035-O4-R (printed on a license as EE035O4R) is a limited either-sex elk rifle license for the 4th rifle season, November 18, 2026 to November 22, 2026, valid in unit 35.
Read left to right: E is elk, E is either-sex, 035 is the hunt area number (it names the license, and is not always a unit number), O4 is the 4th rifle season and R is rifle. How to read any hunt code.
EE035O4R season dates and units
- Dates: November 18, 2026 to November 22, 2026
- Valid in: unit 35
- How it is issued: limited: issued through the draw, with any left over sold afterwards
Read from the 2026 Colorado Big Game brochure. Your license and the current brochure are the authority: check both with Colorado Parks and Wildlife before you hunt.
How many preference points did EE035O4R take in the 2026 draw?
In Colorado's 2026 primary draw, EE035O4R drew out at 0 preference points for residents and 0 for nonresidents. CPW issued all 40 licenses, and 32 of 34 resident and 5 of 8 nonresident first-choice applicants drew.
| Draw year | Licenses | Issued in the draw | Residents drew out at (points) | Resident first choice: drew | Nonresidents drew out at (points) | Nonresident first choice: drew |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 32 of 34 | 0 | 5 of 8 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 2nd+ choice | 19 of 19 | 0 | 9 of 9 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 2nd+ choice | 18 of 18 | 2nd+ choice | 3 of 3 |
"Drew out at" is CPW's own figure: the preference point level of the last license the draw gave that group. "2nd+ choice" means every first-choice applicant drew and the rest went to applicants who listed it lower; "leftover" means licenses were still left after the draw. Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report; 2025 Primary ELK Post Draw Report; 2024 Primary ELK Post Draw Report.
Who drew EE035O4R in 2026, by preference points
| Points | Resident applicants | Residents drawn | Nonresident applicants | Nonresidents drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 0 | 28 | 26 | 8 | 5 |
First-choice applications only, adult residents and nonresidents.
What was EE035O4R's hunter success in 2025?
CPW's 2025 harvest survey estimates that 31 hunters held EE035O4R and took 7 elk (5 bulls, 2 cows): 22.6% success, over 131 days in the field.
| 2025 | Bulls | Cows | Calves | Harvest | Hunters | Success | Days hunted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE035O4R | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 22.6% | 131 |
CPW's estimates for this license alone (2025 Colorado Elk Harvest Estimates), the first year CPW reports by hunt code rather than by unit.
EE035O4R: elk hunters in unit 35, 2024 and 2023
| Unit | Hunters, 2024 | Hunters, 2023 | Elk taken, 2024 | Bulls / cows / calves | Success, 2024 | Success, 2023 | Change, points | National forest and BLM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 35 | 42 | 41 | 15 | 2 / 13 / 0 | 36% | 7% | +29 | 69% |
Every 4th rifle elk hunter in each unit, whatever license they held: CPW's survey does not report hunters by hunt code or by sex of license. Estimates from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's 2024 and 2023 harvest surveys, not counts: CPW rounds each figure, so the parts can differ from a total by one or two, and success here (animals taken divided by hunters, as on the unit pages) can sit a point from the percentage CPW prints. How to read these tables.
What the numbers say about EE035O4R
- Unit 35 had 42 elk hunters in the 4th rifle season in 2024, who took 15 elk: 36% success. In 2023 it was 7% from 41 hunters, so success is up 29 points on the year before and hunter numbers went from 41 to 42.
- Across all 127 Colorado units with an estimate, elk hunters in the 4th rifle season ran at 25% in 2024 (2,931 elk from 11,864 hunters). Unit 35 was 11 points above it, and held 0.4% of the state's hunters for that season.
- This is an either-sex license. Of the 15 elk taken, 2 were bulls, 13 were cows and 0 were calves. The 2023 and 2024 unit surveys count animals by sex but not hunters by license; CPW's 2025 report gives this license's own success, above.
- The 4th rifle season drew 42 of the 703 rifle elk hunters in unit 35 in 2024 (6%). The busiest rifle season there was 2nd rifle, with 280.
- That is 16 hunters for every 100 square miles of the unit, public and private land together, and 3.2 days in the field per hunter.
- Unit 35 is 0% national forest and 69% BLM land, about 185 of its 268 square miles. Every unit by public land.
EE035O4R is valid in the same unit, in the same season, as EF035O4R.
The ground in unit 35, and legal light on November 18
| Unit | Counties | Square miles | National forest | BLM | Elevation, feet | Hunters per 100 square miles, 2024 | Legal shooting light, opening day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 35 | Eagle | 268 | 0% | 69% | 6,300 to 10,500 | 16 | 6:26 AM to 5:19 PM |
Land shares are measured inside the unit boundary and count ownership, not access. Legal light is half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset, worked out for the middle of each unit on the Colorado clock: the state's printed sunrise and sunset table is the rule.
Open the map on unit 35, with unit boundaries switched on. Land ownership, roads and State Wildlife Areas are layers on the same map.
See unit 35 on the map
- The unit boundaries for unit 35, over a topo map or an aerial photo.
- Who owns the ground: public and private land, parcel lines and the owner on record.
- Where elk live: the published summer and winter range maps.
- How much of each unit is public.
Holding EE035O4R?
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Check my huntOther licenses and State Wildlife Areas in unit 35
The other elk licenses valid in unit 35 and the State Wildlife Areas and State Trust Lands there are listed on the EF035O2R page, valid in the same unit in the 2nd rifle season, and on the unit 35 page.