Washington Elk — GMU 272
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Washington GMU 272 covers 1,138,123 acres and lies 19 miles north of Moses Lake and 45 miles east of Wenatchee. 19% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (7%) and Bureau of Reclamation (7%). In 2025, hunters took 26 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 272 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Washington 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.
Who owns the ground
- Private 920,754 ac · 81%
- State trust land 81,810 ac · 7%
- Bureau of Reclamation 76,840 ac · 7%
- State land 31,192 ac · 3%
- BLM 14,280 ac · 1%
- County or city land 6,681 ac · 1%
- National Wildlife Refuge 6,278 ac · 1%
- Other public 270 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 14 ac · 0%
Source: WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands' (NDMPL) layer, federal/state/county/city ownership parcels
How the hunting has gone
What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total.
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 5 · 21% · 17 hunters, 29% success
- Firearm 13 · 54% · 43 hunters, 30% success
- Muzzleloader 6 · 25% · 15 hunters, 40% success
Boundary: WDFW Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon layer (WP_HuntPlanner/Regulation/MapServer/0)
Harvest: WDFW Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table (WP_HuntPlanner/Harvest/MapServer/1)