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Oregon Elk Draw Odds

In the 2026 draw Oregon offered 301 elk hunts to residents and nonresidents in one shared draw, drawn partly by preference points and partly at random. At 0 points an applicant had at least an even chance in 117 hunts open to every hunter.

Applications Close

210 days

May 15

Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected)

Cost to Apply

$203

Kept if you miss. Elk license $660 only if drawn

Tags, All Residencies

63,975

2026 draw · nonresidents capped at 5%

Nonresident Applicants

7,196

2026 draw, first choice

Point only: $10 · Jul 1 – Nov 30 · Open now, closes Nov 30 → Buying Points in Oregon

How the Oregon Draw Works (30-Second Version)

Hybrid: preference + random.

Say a hunt has 100 tags, shared by residents and nonresidents. 75 go to the applicants with the most preference points; if the last point level that draws has more applicants than tags left, that level is split at random. The other 25 are drawn at random from everyone who missed the points pass, so an applicant with no points still has a chance. Nonresidents can take at most 5 of the 100.

Who can apply, fees and deadlines in Oregon

Best Bets at 0 Points

Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.

Bull or Either-Sex

259R

Unit 59 · Bull archery · Snake Rvr Unit Bow

100%

Success: 49%
Public: 93%
Season: Aug 29–Sep 27

225Y

Unit 25 · Bull rifle · Sixes Unit No. 2

100%

Success: 43%
Public: 31%
Season: Nov 21–29

256Y2

Unit 56 · Rifle · Wenaha Unit No. 3

100%

Success: 28%
Public: 74%
Season: Nov 7–15

255X

Unit 55 · Rifle · Walla Walla Unit No. 1

100%

Success: 36%
Public: 33%
Season: Oct 28–Nov 1

254R2

Unit 54 · Archery · Mt Emily Unit Bow No. 2

100%

Success: 33%
Public: 44%
Season: Aug 29–Sep 27

244

Unit 44 · Either-sex rifle · Columbia Plateau

100%

Success: 43%
Public: 5%
Season: Oct 28–Mar 31

Cow

262

Unit 62 · Antlerless rifle · Pine Cr Unit

100%

Success: 30%
Public: 76%
Season: Nov 21–29

258A2

Unit 58 · Antlerless rifle · Zumwalt No. 2

100%

Success: 29%
Public: 49%
Season: Oct 1–31

264A1

Unit 64 · Antlerless rifle · Lookout Mtn Unit No. 1

100%

Success: 28%
Public: 38%
Season: Oct 18–Nov 30

225A

Unit 25 · Antlerless rifle · N Sixes

66%

Success: 43%
Public: 31%
Season: Dec 1–Feb 28

268

Unit 68 · Antlerless rifle · Whitehorse Unit

88%

Success: 20%
Public: 91%
Season: Oct 17–Jan 31

245C

Unit 45 · Antlerless rifle · Fossil Unit

100%

Success: 29%
Public: 16%
Season: Nov 21–29

Every Hunt at 0 Points

301 hunt codes drawn in 2026 · 160 at 50% or better · first choice · all residencies

Last year's odds were off by about 5 percentage points for applicants near the points needed. How we check

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

Include private-land & ranch hunts One Line per Hunt Odds at Every Point Level

	Hunt		Season
210 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit	Antlerless rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit	10	Dec 1–Mar 31	<1%	13▲1	11 / 18	28%
210A1 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · W Saddle Mtn No. 1	Antlerless rifle · W Saddle Mtn No. 1	10	Dec 1–31	4%	11▲4	42 / 12	28%
210A2 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · W Saddle Mtn No. 2	Antlerless rifle · W Saddle Mtn No. 2	10	Jan 1–31	4%	6▼3	42 / 5	28%
210B1 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Central Saddle Mtn No. 1	Antlerless rifle · Central Saddle Mtn No. 1	10	Dec 1–31	4%	6▲1	39 / 3	28%
210B2 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Central Saddle Mtn No. 2	Antlerless rifle · Central Saddle Mtn No. 2	10	Jan 1–31	7%	8▲4	38 / 6	28%
210C1 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Upper Nehalem No. 1	Antlerless rifle · Upper Nehalem No. 1	10	Dec 1–Jan 31	10%	2	82 / 3	28%
210C2 Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Upper Nehalem No. 2	Antlerless rifle · Upper Nehalem No. 2	10	Feb 1–Mar 31	13%	2▲1	82 / 4	28%
210D Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Lower Columbia	Antlerless rifle · Lower Columbia	10	Dec 1–Mar 31	10%	3▲1	83 / 12	28%
210T Youth · Unit 10 · Antlerless rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit Youth	Antlerless rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit YouthYouth	10	Aug 15–Dec 31	2%	6▲1	11 / 3	28%
210X Unit 10 · Bull rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit No. 1	Bull rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit No. 1	10	Nov 14–17	100%	0	1,320 / 41	28%
210Y Unit 10 · Bull rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit No. 2	Bull rifle · Saddle Mtn Unit No. 2	10	Nov 21–27	100%	0	1,320 / 39	28%
211 Unit 11 · Antlerless rifle · Scappoose Unit	Antlerless rifle · Scappoose Unit	11	Jan 1–Mar 31	2%	7	28 / 2	25%
211A Unit 11 · Antlerless rifle · North Plains	Antlerless rifle · North Plains	11	Dec 1–Mar 31	100%	0	94 / 0	25%
211B Unit 11 · Antlerless rifle · N Central Scappoose	Antlerless rifle · N Central Scappoose	11	Jan 1–Mar 31	6%	4	33 / 2	25%
211C Unit 11 · Antlerless rifle · Banks	Antlerless rifle · Banks	11	Jan 1–Mar 31	100%	0▼1	39 / 0	25%
211T Youth · Unit 11 · Antlerless rifle · Scappoose Unit Youth	Antlerless rifle · Scappoose Unit YouthYouth	11	Aug 15–Dec 31	6%	3▲1	21 / 2	25%
212 Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit	Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit	12	Dec 1–Mar 31	<1%	13▲1	10 / 7	15%
212A1 Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Miami-Nehalem No. 1	Antlerless rifle · Miami-Nehalem No. 1	12	Dec 1–Jan 31	13%	2▼1	37 / 3	15%
212A2 Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Miami-Nehalem No. 2	Antlerless rifle · Miami-Nehalem No. 2	12	Feb 1–Mar 31	23%	1▼1	39 / 1	15%
212B Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Buick Canyon	Antlerless rifle · Buick Canyon	12	Dec 15–Mar 31	100%	5▼2	10 / 0	15%
212T1 Youth · Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 1 Youth	Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 1 YouthYouth	12	Aug 15–Dec 31	4%	3▼2	11 / 2	15%
212T2 Youth · Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 2 Youth	Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 2 YouthYouth	12	Dec 19–27	100%	1	43 / 0	15%
212T3 Youth · Unit 12 · Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 3 Youth	Antlerless rifle · Wilson Unit No. 3 YouthYouth	12	Dec 26–Jan 3	57%	1▲1	43 / 3	15%
214 Unit 14 · Antlerless rifle · Trask Unit	Antlerless rifle · Trask Unit	14	Dec 1–Mar 31	<1%	15▲2	10 / 3	16%
214A1 Unit 14 · Antlerless rifle · W Trask No. 1	Antlerless rifle · W Trask No. 1	14	Dec 1–Jan 31	5%	5	32 / 3	16%

Showing 1–25 of 301 · sorted by unit · 27 hunts not offered in 2026 hidden — show discontinued hunts

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What These Columns Mean

Odds at your points: the share of first-choice applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
Pts needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Tags / apps: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
Success: the share of hunters in the unit who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole unit's figure, not the hunt's.
Private land, RFW, ranch, youth: tags not every hunter can use: private-land-only hunts need landowner access, ranch hunts (Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife, Utah's CWMUs) come with access to one ranch, youth tags have an age limit. They are never best bets and never colour the map.

All 68 Units

Each unit has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

10 Saddle Mtn 28% success · 26% public 11 Scappoose 25% success · 10% public 12 Wilson 15% success · 66% public 14 Trask 16% success · 44% public 15 Willamette 24% success · 4% public 16 Santiam 11% success · 64% public 17 Stott Mtn 15% success · 22% public 18 Alsea 17% success · 44% public 19 Mckenzie 12% success · 61% public 20 Siuslaw 16% success · 42% public 21 Indigo 10% success · 69% public 22 Dixon 11% success · 76% public 23 Melrose 27% success · 16% public 24 Tioga 23% success · 36% public 25 Sixes 43% success · 31% public 26 Powers 28% success · 48% public 27 Chetco 26% success · 82% public 28 Applegate 9% success · 59% public 29 Evans Creek 9% success · 43% public 30 Rogue 6% success · 58% public 31 Keno 8% success · 52% public 32 Klamath Falls 6% success · 36% public 33 Sprague 2% success · 73% public 34 Upper Deschutes 14% success · 76% public 35 Paulina 10% success · 78% public 36 Maury 9% success · 57% public 37 Ochoco 24% success · 54% public 38 Grizzly 16% success · 28% public 39 Metolius 17% success · 66% public 40 Maupin 43% success · 10% public 41 White River 13% success · 44% public 42 Hood 21% success · 71% public 43 Biggs 48% success · 15% public 44 Columbia Basin 43% success · 5% public 45 Fossil 29% success · 15% public 46 Murderers Creek 17% success · 68% public 47 Northside 20% success · 41% public 48 Heppner 18% success · 34% public 49 Ukiah 16% success · 35% public 50 Desolation 13% success · 89% public 51 Sumpter 20% success · 46% public 52 Starkey 21% success · 64% public 53 Catherine Creek 26% success · 24% public 54 Mount Emily 33% success · 44% public 55 Walla Walla 36% success · 33% public 56 Wenaha 28% success · 73% public 57 Sled Springs 25% success · 22% public 58 Chesnimnus 29% success · 49% public 59 Snake River 49% success · 93% public 60 Minam 16% success · 74% public 61 Imnaha 31% success · 74% public 62 Pine Creek 30% success · 76% public 63 Keating 19% success · 57% public 64 Lookout Mtn 28% success · 38% public 65 Beulah 20% success · 57% public 66 Malheur River 17% success · 68% public 67 Owyhee 32% success · 82% public 68 Whitehorse 20% success · 91% public 69 Steens Mtn 9% success · 64% public 70 Beatys Butte 83% public 71 Juniper 6% success · 89% public 72 Silvies 12% success · 67% public 73 Wagontire 9% success · 87% public 74 Warner 9% success · 70% public 75 Interstate 13% success · 59% public 76 Silver Lake 3% success · 62% public 77 Fort Rock 5% success · 71% public 78

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About These Numbers

Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.

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Bull or Either-Sex

Cow

Every Hunt at 0 Points

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