Colorado Elk EF083W2R — GMU 83

elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83

GMU 83 within Colorado

What you may take: elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83
Weapon: Rifle
Where: GMU 83; 5% public of 801,273 acres
Season (2021): Oct 27–31, 2021
Tags (2021): 5; for 0 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 25%
Hunter success here (2024): 41%; of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2021 draw

No first-choice applicants: 5 tags on offer in 2021 and nobody listed this hunt first. Anyone who had would have drawn.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 5 tags, 0 first-choice applicants. Source: 2021 Primary Elk Post Draw... · p. 603.

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

Fewer applicants than tags. Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes no per-level applicant counts for this hunt. 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

At the 2021 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 (2021)

Split 1: Oct 27–31, 2021 p. 603

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 83, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 884 hunters and 367 elk taken in 2024 — 41% of them killed something. Full GMU 83 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

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Source
2021	5	0	0.0	—	2021 Primary Elk Post Draw... · p. 603

Other licenses valid in GMU 83

EE083O1M — elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 83 [83] Muzzleloader EE083O1R — elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 83 Rifle EE083O2R — elk either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 83 Rifle EE083O3R — elk either-sex rifle season 3 GMU 83 [83] Rifle EE083O4R — elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 83 Rifle EE083V1A — elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 83 [83] Archery EE083W1R — elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83 Rifle EE851J2R — elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 851 Rifle EF083O1M — elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 83 [83] Muzzleloader EF083O4R — elk female rifle season 4 GMU 83 Rifle EF083W1R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83 Rifle EF083W3R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83 Rifle EF083W4R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83 Rifle EF083W5R — elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 83 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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