Alaska Unit 8:elk draw odds & harvest
9 hunt codes for elk. 2025: 6 to 120 tags, 99 to 3,579 applicants per hunt.
At a glance
Elk hunt codes
9
Drawing permit hunt
Tags · 2025
311
across 9 hunts
Applicants · 2025
16,219
52 per tag
Harvest success 3-yr
0–100%
Hardest draw in Unit 82025 draw
DE7026 tags, 3,579 applied, under 1% drew.
One of Alaska's hardest elk draws: 2nd hardest of 13 in 2025.
Hunt codes
Elk huntsin Unit 8
Whole-hunt draw results: applicants, tags and the share that drew.
| Hunt code | What it is | Draw result · 2025 | Tags | Success 3-yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE702 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 1–Oct 128, Raspberry | <1% drew of 3,579 | 6 | 25–100% |
| DE704 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 11–Oct 228, Raspberry | <1% drew of 2,524 | 6 | 50–67% |
| DE706 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 23–Nov 30 | 10% drew of 99 | 10 | 0–40% |
| DE711 | drawing permit hunt · Sep 25–Oct 98, SW Afognak Island | <1% drew of 3,025 | 15 | 67–100% |
| DE713 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 8–Oct 22 | 11% drew of 1,121 | 120 | 17–33% |
| DE715 | drawing permit hunt · Sep 25–Oct 98, Remainder | 2% drew of 2,069 | 46 | 44–69% |
| DE717 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 8–Oct 228, Remainder | 3% drew of 1,432 | 46 | 58–64% |
| DE721 | drawing permit hunt · Sep 25–Oct 98, East Afognak | 2% drew of 1,324 | 31 | 0–40% |
Some hunt codes cover several units; the hunt page lists them all.
Harvest
How hunters didin Unit 8.
Harvest success by hunt, 2019–2025
% successDE70225–100%
83%
71%
80%
50%
60%
100%
25%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE70420–100%
100%
88%
20%
40%
67%
50%
60%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE7060–40%
13%
21%
28%
22%
32%
0%
40%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE71150–100%
50%
57%
75%
73%
100%
100%
67%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE71311–45%
11%
43%
30%
45%
17%
33%
28%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE71544–84%
84%
48%
58%
82%
69%
52%
44%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE71744–64%
44%
58%
51%
64%
64%
58%
58%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE7210–40%
0%
22%
29%
31%
0%
40%
24%
2019202020212022202320242025
DE7230–53%
18%
41%
6%
11%
0%
41%
53%
2019202020212022202320242025
45%+28–45%Under 28%
Before you apply
- Application fee
- “For black bear, brown bear, caribou, elk, moose, mountain goat, and Dall sheep hunts, the fee is $5.”
- Deadline
- “Group coordinators may apply beginning Oct. 1 and ending Dec. 15, 2026 at 5 p.m.”
- Tag fee
- “Elk...............................................$600”
- Points
- “A computer then randomly assigns a “draw number” to each hunt on each valid application.”
Rules for 2027.
Season dates · 2026
- DE702drawing permit huntOct 1–Oct 12
- DE704drawing permit huntOct 11–Oct 22
- DE706drawing permit huntOct 23–Nov 30
- DE711drawing permit huntSep 25–Oct 9
- DE713drawing permit huntOct 8–Oct 22
- DE715drawing permit huntSep 25–Oct 9
- DE717drawing permit huntOct 8–Oct 22
- DE721drawing permit huntSep 25–Oct 9
- DE723drawing permit huntOct 8–Oct 22
Confirm in the regulations before you go.
Map & access
Unit 8and the units around it
Neighbors with a FarWide page open on click.
Public land & access
Each program opens on the state's site. Check on-the-ground signage.
Offline maps
Take Unit 8into your map app
Opens in onX, Gaia GPS, CalTopo, Google Earth, and Garmin. Works offline in those apps.
Members
Unit 8 hunt pack
One file, layered: the unit boundary, with each elk hunt's draw odds and harvest success attached to the unit.
- Unit boundary
- Draw odds per hunt
- Harvest success per hunt
Unit 8 · DE702
<1% drew of 3,579
Success25–100%
Ask FarWide
Answers use the same figures as this page.
Source: ADF&G