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Colorado Elk EF006O4R — GMU 6

elk female rifle season 4 GMU 6 [6]

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GMU 6 within Colorado
Everything about GMU 6
What you may take
elk female rifle season 4 GMU 6 [6]
Weapon
Rifle
Where
GMU 6
68% public of 226,588 acres
Season (2026)
Nov 18–22, 2026
Tags (2025)
68
for 1 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 25%
Hunter success here (2024)
10%
of everyone who hunted the area

Showing nonresident results (Standard class). Switch to resident · Standard Youth

Odds by point level — 2025 draw · 2026 draw pending — showing 2025 odds

Undersubscribed: 1 of 1 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2025. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 1 tags, 1 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 293.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 1 1
1–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels — —

Preference points, computed from published point-level pools. A dash means Colorado Parks and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$129.11
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$129.11
Total if drawn
$974.27
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $974.27 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident limited-license application-processing fee (per species, per draw) · paid at application $11.49 source
Nonresident annual small game license (cheapest qualifying license to enter the draws; base $102.11 + surcharges) · paid at application $104.86 or $194.21 source
Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp (ages 18-64, once per license year, added automatically) · paid at application $12.76 source
Preference point fee, deer/elk/pronghorn (none until the 2028 draw) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $0 source
Nonresident elk license (bull, either-sex or cow; includes annual fishing combo; base $842.41 + surcharges) - charged only if drawn · paid if drawn, refundable $845.16 source

Optional, not counted above: Hunt-code exchange fee (same species, quota remaining, before season starts) $5 and License refund processing fee (most refunds) $15.

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $0 (Mar 1 – Apr 7, expected) and adds a point for next year's draw.

Next application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 26. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Nov 18–22, 2026 p. 349

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 6, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 3,161 hunters and 321 elk taken in 2024 — 10% of them killed something. Full GMU 6 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Colorado's figures come from CPW's post-season hunter survey. CPW's 2025 report dropped the per-GMU table in favour of hunt-code rows, so the newest year shown here is 2024. Source: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates

As a lower choice

2nd choice
13%

Tags issued to lower choices ÷ lower-choice applicants, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Colorado runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2026 84 0 0.0 — 84 tagsfrom 2 applications 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 349
2025 68 1 0.0 — 67 tagsfrom 3 applications 2025 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 293
2024 114 0 0.0 — 113 tagsfrom 3 applications 2024 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 255
2023 114 0 0.0 — 114 tagsfrom 1 applications 2023 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 263
2022 112 0 0.0 — 112 tagsfrom 0 applications 2022 Primary ELK Post Draw... · p. 265
2021 96 0 0.0 — 96 tagsfrom 1 applications 2021 Primary Elk Post Draw... · p. 269

Other licenses valid in GMU 6

EE006O1M — elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Muzzleloader EE006O1R — elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Rifle EE006O4R — elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 6 Rifle EE006P1R — elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Rifle EE006V1A — elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Archery EE006W1R — elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle EE006W2R — elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle EF006O1M — elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Muzzleloader EF006O1R — elk female rifle season 1 GMU 6 Rifle EF006O2R — elk female rifle season 2 GMU 6 Rifle EF006O3R — elk female rifle season 3 GMU 6 Rifle EF006P2R — elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 6 [161, 171 10/30/2021– 11/07/2021 Antlerless] Rifle EF006P3R — elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 6 [11/13/2021– 11/19/2021 Antlerless 6] Rifle EF006P4R — elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 6 [6 11/24/2021– 11/28/2021 Antlerless] Rifle EF006P5R — elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Rifle EF006V1A — elk female archery nonresident-only GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] Archery EF006W1R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle EF006W2R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle EF006W3R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle EF006W4R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 Rifle

Legal cartridges for elk in Colorado

From the Colorado hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.243 Winchester depends from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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