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What your points drew in the 2026 draw
Pick a species, your residency and your preference points, and this lookup lists every 2026 limited elk, deer or pronghorn hunt code with what CPW's 2026 draw recap shows happened to adults holding exactly those points who listed the code first. It reports one year's draw, not your chances next year. Every figure is read from CPW's recaps at build time; nothing is typed by hand. CPW 2026 elk draw recap CPW 2026 deer draw recap CPW 2026 pronghorn draw recap
How the Colorado draw works, in one line: licenses go first to the applicants with the most preference points, one hunt code at a time. CPW's recap prints, for every code, how many adults at each point level applied and how many drew. This page puts all of those rows in one place so you can read your own level across every code.
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Which hunt codes are in the lookup
| Species | Hunt codes in CPW's 2026 recap | In this lookup | Left out: no 2026 brochure row | Left out: failed the consistency check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elk recap | 1,040 | 1,037 | 2 E-F-040-L1-R, EP99999P | 1 E-E-001-O1-A |
| Deer recap | 992 | 988 | 4 D-E-682-P5-R, D-F-084-P5-R, D-M-140-O4-R, DP99999P | 0 |
| Pronghorn recap | 303 | 300 | 3 A-F-006-O2-R, A-F-015-P5-R, AP99999P | 0 |
How this works
Each hunt code is sorted by what CPW's 2026 recap shows for adult applicants of your residency who listed it as their first choice and held exactly your points:
- Everyone at your points drew. Every applicant at your level drew. Also here: codes where nobody held exactly your points but every applicant above the drawn-out level drew, and codes where every first-choice applicant drew.
- Some at your points drew. Your level is where the line fell (or above it), and only part of it drew. The row shows "X of Y".
- Drew below the line through the hybrid draw. Your points are under the drawn-out level, yet some applicants at your level drew. In the 2026 recaps every such case is a code with hybrid-draw licenses, a random draw for applicants with five or more points. How the hybrid draw works.
- Nobody at your points drew. Applicants held your points and none drew. The row shows where the line stopped.
- No 2026 applicants at exactly your points. Nobody applied with your exact level (or no adult of your residency listed the code first), so the 2026 draw has no result for it. The lookup never fills the gap by guessing between levels; the row shows where the line fell instead.
What "the line" means. CPW's "Drawn Out At" figure is the lowest point level at which first-choice adults of your residency drew, with how many at that level drew ("20 of 22"). Some codes drew out at a later choice ("Choice 2") or had licenses left over. CPW's printed label does not always mean everyone drew: on some codes its own point rows show a few first-choice applicants who did not, so the lookup reports those rows rather than the label.
What is left out. Youth and landowner (LPP) applicants are not counted; they draw from separate pools. Codes with no row in the 2026 Big Game Brochure are left out, because a code cannot be shown without its valid GMUs: that includes each species' point-only code. Before a code is listed, its point rows must add up to CPW's own printed first-choice totals and agree with its printed "Drawn Out At" figure. A code that fails is left out, not corrected, and counted in the table above. This build: E-E-001-O1-A: nonresident adults: None Drawn but 1 drew. CPW 2026 Big Game Brochure (valid GMUs, season dates)
Grouped codes. One hunt code can cover many GMUs. Its numbers are for the whole code, so a row lists every valid unit and says so. CPW does not split a code's draw results by unit, and neither does this page.
2025 harvest. Where the same hunt code appears in CPW's 2025 harvest estimates, the row adds its 2025 success rate and hunter count, labeled 2025. CPW marks some codes as having too few survey responses for a solid estimate; those carry a "low survey response" flag. If the code covered different units in 2025, the row says so.
Check it against CPW yourself
Every row links to the recap page it came from. The recaps were run between May 11, 2026 and May 21, 2026. CPW lists them, with the newest "Drawn Out At" reports, on each species' statistics page:
- Elk: CPW · Elk statistics CPW 2026 elk draw recap (run May 14, 2026)
- Deer: CPW · Deer statistics CPW 2026 deer draw recap (run May 11, 2026)
- Pronghorn: CPW · Pronghorn statistics CPW 2026 pronghorn draw recap (run May 21, 2026)
For what a single row means in practice, the worked examples on reading CPW draw odds walk through two codes line by line, and how preference points work covers how you earn the points this lookup asks for. CPW Primary Draw
Common questions
Does this tell me my odds of drawing in 2027?
No. It shows what happened in the 2026 draw to applicants holding exactly your points. In 2027 quotas, applicant numbers and everyone's points change, and the hybrid draw is random, so the same points can land differently. Use it to see where a code's line fell last year, then confirm in CPW's recap.
Why does a code say some people below the line drew?
Those are hybrid-draw licenses: a small random draw CPW runs inside the primary draw for its hardest codes, open to applicants with at least five preference points who list the code first. The hybrid draw, explained.
Why are youth and landowner applicants left out?
They draw from separate pools with their own rules, so mixing them in would misstate what an adult hunter with your points drew. The lookup reads only CPW's resident-adult and nonresident-adult columns.