California Elk 301 — Zone Marble Mountains

Marble Mountains - General Methods - Antlerless · Marble Mountains Roosevelt Elk Hunt

What you may take
Marble Mountains - General Methods - Antlerless
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Marble Mountains — Roosevelt Elk Hunt
67% public of 4,580,677 acres
Season (2025)
Sep 10–21, 2025
Tags (2025)
8
for 210 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 1
Roosevelt success here (2022)
64%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 6 tags, 210 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% 30
1 <1% 31
2 <1% 20
3 <1% 15
4 <1% 10
5 <1% 15
6 <1% 13
7 <1% 14
8 <1% 5
9 <1% 9
10 <1% 10
11 <1% 9
12 <1% 4
13 <1% 8
14 <1% 5
15 <1% 0
16 100% 1
17 100% 2
18 100% 2
19 100% 0
20 100% 1
21 100% 0
22 100% 0
23 100% 0

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means California Department of Fish and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$227.94
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$227.94
Total if drawn
$2,053.79
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $2,053.79 (enough points to draw) to $25,759.07 (lowest published odds).

Elk Tag Drawing Application · paid at application $8.13 source
Nonresident hunting license · paid at application $219.81 source
Nonresident elk tag (paid only if drawn) · paid if drawn, refundable $1,825.85 source

Next application window: opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 15. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Sep 10–21, 2025 p. 2

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Marble Mountains, California Department of Fish and Wildlife counted 53 hunters and 34 roosevelt taken in 2022 — 64% of them killed something. Full Marble Mountains profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2022) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Roosevelt 4 4 100%
Roosevelt 10 3 30%
Roosevelt 7 2 25%
Roosevelt 32 25 74%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. California runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2025 8 210 26.3 2 tagsfrom 210 applications 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2
2024 8 234 29.3 2 tagsfrom 234 applications 2024 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2
2023 8 224 28.0 2 tagsfrom 224 applications 2023 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2
2022 8 210 26.3 2 tagsfrom 210 applications 2022 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2
2021 8 249 31.1 2 tagsfrom 249 applications 2021 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 2
2020 8 252 31.5 2 tagsfrom 252 applications 2020 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics... · p. 4
2019 10 208 20.8 2 tagsfrom 208 applications 2019 Big Game Drawing Bighorn... · p. 1
2018 10 255 25.5 2 tagsfrom 255 applications 2018 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1
2017 10 265 26.5 2 tagsfrom 265 applications 2017 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1

Other licenses valid in Marble Mountains

Legal cartridges for elk in California

From the California hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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