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Kansas Elk · Unit 3

Kansas Unit 3 spans 51,990,382 acres, centered 25 miles east of Great Bend. 1% of it is public land.

Tags
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0 licenses · NR capped at 0%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
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not published

Public Land
1%

<1% Other public

Size
81,235 mi²

51,990,382 acres

Pratt Abilene Arkansas City Colby 3

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Unit 3

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no result: ELK-ANTLERLESS-DRAW, ELK-ANY-DRAW, ELK-U3-ANTLERLESS-OTC, ELK-U3-ANY-OTC.

The Ground

Private 51,333,672 ac 99%
Department of Defense 244,830 ac <1%
State land 172,186 ac <1%
Tribal 110,930 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 48,519 ac <1%
County or city land 41,734 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 31,315 ac <1%
National Forest 5,057 ac <1%
State trust land 1,612 ac <1%
National Park Service 467 ac <1%
Other public 47 ac <1%
BLM 8 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1.

Next Door

What the Agency Says About the Area

The state is divided into three elk management units. No elk hunting is currently allowed in Unit 1. Unit 2 includes parts of Clay, Dickinson, Riley and Geary counties. Unit 2A is the Fort Riley reservation. Unit 3 is the remaining part of the state.

Source: KDWP 2026 Hunting & Furharvesting Regulations….

▸ Sources 3
  1. KDWP 2026 Elk Management Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1 land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. KDWP 2026 Hunting & Furharvesting Regulations… area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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We don't take applications: check Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Kansas elk hunts