8375962RES
Unit 161 elk,any legal weapon season
Season Any Legal Weapon Dec 5–Jan 1·Units: 161·35 tags in 2025·Who can apply: residents
Answer card2025 draw · Resident
35 tags, 206 applied, 11% drew in 2025. 423rd hardest of 534 Nevada elk draws in 2025.
Draw result · 2025
11%
23 of 206 drew
Harvest success
18%
Range, 2025
Tags · 2025
35
Applicants · 2025
206
5.9 per tag
Draw results · whole hunt
| Year | Who | Applicants | Drew | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Resident | 206 | 23 | 35 |
Nevada prints whole-hunt figures, not results by point level.
What it is
- Legal animal
- Elk Spike
- Weapon
- Any Legal Weapon
- Tags
- 35 (2025)
- Who can apply
- Residents
- Land ownership
- BLM 62.5%, USFS 35%, Private 1.5%, Other 0.9%, DOD 0.1%
Season dates, 2025
- Any Legal Weapon: Dec 5–Jan 1
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Harvest success, 8375962
2025–20252518%
2025: 5 taken by 27 hunters.
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Before you apply
- Application fee
- “A fee not to exceed $10 may be charged for processing an application for a game species or permit other than an application for an elk. A fee of not less than $5 but not more than $15 must be charged for processing an application for an elk”
- Tag fee
- “Nonresident antlered elk tag.............................................................................. 1,200”
- Points
- “may electronically submit an application for a bonus point for that species or category of species”
Rules for 2026.
Source: NDOW