Colorado Elk — GMU 147
Colorado GMU 147 covers 206,849 acres and lies 79 miles south-east of Pueblo. 27% of it is public land, mostly state land (24%) and national forest (4%). In 2024, 100 people hunted elk here and took 26 — 26% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 147 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Colorado elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
How the hunting has gone
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 100 | 26 | 26% |
| 2023 | 93 | 11 | 12% |
| 2022 | 92 | 22 | 24% |
| 2021 | 122 | 0 | 0% |
What people carried (2024 harvest)
- Rifle 26 · 100% · 97 hunters, 27% success
- Archery 0 · 0% · 3 hunters, 0% success
Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)
Harvest: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest
Harvest: 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates
Harvest: 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest