Nebraska Elk — Box Elder Antlerless
No more draws here — the last one was 2022
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission held its 2026 elk draw without Box Elder Antlerless. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Nebraska elk hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
In 2020, hunters took 49 elk here. Its biggest hunt, BOX-ELDER-ANTLERLESS-LO, put up 45 tags in the 2022 draw.
Your chance of drawing here
The last draw held in Box Elder Antlerless was 2022. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice resident applicant, kept for the record — nothing is on offer here for 2026.
Chances are from the 2022 draw (the last one held here) for a first-choice resident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.
Simple view Odds at every point level-
— Cut level
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<1% Point builder
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0% Point builder
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10% Point builder
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9% Point builder
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | Points needed | Tags / applicants | License | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX-ELDER-ANTLERLESS-LO ↗ Box Elder Antlerless (landowner) | — Cut level | — | 45 / — | Landowner | Aug 1 – Jan 31, 2023 |
| BOX-ELDER-BULL ↗ Box Elder Bull | <1% Point builder | 0 steady since 2018 | — / 1,613 | Standard | Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2022 |
| BOX-ELDER-BULL-LO ↗ Box Elder Bull (landowner) | 0% Point builder | 3 −2 since 2018 | — / — | Landowner | Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2022 |
| BOX-ELDER-EARLY-ANTLERLESS ↗ Box Elder Early Antlerless | 10% Point builder | — | 30 / — | Standard | Aug 1 – Oct 31, 2022 |
| BOX-ELDER-LATE-ANTLERLESS ↗ Box Elder Late Antlerless | 9% Point builder | — | 30 / — | Standard | Nov 1 – Jan 31, 2023 |
What these columns mean
- Your odds —
- the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2022 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
- The badge —
- plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- Points needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2022 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
- Tags / applicants —
- tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags the percentage is flagged, because one applicant either way swings it.
What it costs to apply (2024 resident fees)
| License | Up front | Gone if you miss | If you draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard license | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Landowner license | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Application window: opens Jun 1, closes Jun 12, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Other licenses valid in Box Elder Antlerless
Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2022 draw.
The country
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission does not publish a mapped boundary for Box Elder Antlerless, so there is no map to draw.
How the hunting has gone
What Nebraska Game and Parks Commission publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast.
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 49 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2018 | 27 |
| 2017 | 21 |
What the agency says about the area
One of the named elk units NGPC used through the 2022 draw. The units were restructured and renumbered (Unit 1-14) for the 2023 draw and NGPC publishes only the current numbered boundaries; no official name-to-number crosswalk was found, so no geometry is attached rather than guessed.
Source: Nebraska Big Game Guide 2026 (unit names, public-land statements)
Harvest: 2023 Big Game Recommendations book, April 2023 v3 (2022 season harvest; comparisons 2018-2022)
Harvest: 2022 Big Game Recommendations book (2021 season harvest; comparisons 2017-2021)