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Unit 161 elk,any legal weapon season
Season Any Legal Weapon Oct 1–Oct 20·Units: 161·3 tags in 2025·Who can apply: nonresidents
Answer card2025 draw · Nonresident
3 tags, 64 applied, 5% drew in 2025. 242nd hardest of 534 Nevada elk draws in 2025.
Draw result · 2025
5%
3 of 64 drew
Harvest success
66%
Range, 2025
Tags · 2025
3
Applicants · 2025
64
21 per tag
Draw results · whole hunt
| Year | Who | Applicants | Drew | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Nonresident | 64 | 3 | 3 |
Nevada prints whole-hunt figures, not results by point level.
What it is
- Legal animal
- Elk Antlerless
- Weapon
- Any Legal Weapon
- Tags
- 3 (2025)
- Who can apply
- Nonresidents
- Land ownership
- BLM 62.5%, USFS 35%, Private 1.5%, Other 0.9%, DOD 0.1%
Season dates, 2025
- Any Legal Weapon: Oct 1–Oct 20
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Harvest success, 859
2025–20252566%
2025: 2 taken by 3 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