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Colorado Elk — GMU 771

Colorado GMU 771 covers 233,992 acres and lies 34 miles east of Durango and 73 miles east of Cortez. 21% of it is public land, mostly national forest (18%) and county or city land (2%). A further 45% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2024, 570 people hunted elk here and took 93 — 16% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 775 tags here for 694 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):2,409 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:2,670 Hunter success (2024):16% Public land:21% Size:233,992 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 771, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

28 licenses on offer · 2,409 tags · 2,670 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • EE077P1A elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 273 tags · 135 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 29% as 2nd choice
  • EE077P1A elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 48 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1A elk female archery season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 65 tags · 57 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 4% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1A elk female archery season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 4 tags · 3 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 7 tags · 31 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 30 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 77 8 tags · 38 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 77 35 tags · 4 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 19 tags · 240 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 2 tags · 16 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    14% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 11 tags · 167 applicants · needed 7 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 1 tags · 20 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 77 3 tags · 14 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 77 15 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077P1R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 15 tags · 4 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF077P4R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 77 20 tags · 11 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1A elk male archery season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 775 tags · 694 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 9% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1A elk male archery season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 64 tags · 17 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 32% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 212 tags · 278 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    23% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 10 tags · 16 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    33% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 77 525 tags · 740 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    44% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 77 29 tags · 34 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 77 23 tags · 73 applicants · needed 2 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 77 3 tags · 3 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077P1R elk male rifle private-land-only GMU 77 76 tags · 56 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 7% as 2nd choice
  • EM077P1R elk male rifle private-land-only GMU 77 75 tags · 1 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM077P4R elk male rifle private-land-only GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 31 tags · 12 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 23% as 2nd choice
  • EM077P4R elk male rifle private-land-only GMU 77 [77, 78, 771] 30 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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Colorado lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $129.11 $129.11 $974.27
Youth license $129.11 $129.11 $974.27

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in GMU 771

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

EF077P5R — elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 77 [09/01/2021– 09/30/2021 Antlerless] Standard

The country

Durango Alamosa Montrose Cañon City Grand Junction
GMU 771 within Colorado
75 751 77 78
GMU 771 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Tribal 105,436 ac · 45%
  • Private 80,044 ac · 34%
  • National Forest 42,120 ac · 18%
  • County or city land 5,105 ac · 2%
  • State land 733 ac · 0%
  • BLM 379 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 72 ac · 0%
  • Other public 23 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

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 570 93 16%
2023 621 91 15%
2022 548 81 15%
2021 641 95 15%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 85 · 90% · 482 hunters, 18% success
  • Archery 5 · 5% · 75 hunters, 7% success
  • Muzzleloader 4 · 4% · 14 hunters, 29% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado elk hunts