How to Read Colorado Unit Harvest Tables
Compare hunters, harvest and season rows without confusing a whole-unit success rate with your chances on public land.
A unit's harvest table can help you compare seasons. It cannot tell you whether a particular public basin will hold animals during your trip.
Start with the right season
Find the row for your numbered rifle season before looking at the all-rifle total. The total includes additional late and private-land rifle seasons. It is not just the sum of the numbered rows displayed on FilledTag.
For example, the 2024 elk table for Colorado unit 86 lists 1,161 hunters across all rifle seasons. The four numbered rifle rows add to 886. Those figures describe different sets of hunts; the difference is not a missing group of public-land hunters.
Harvest divided by hunters is a historical ratio
Our displayed success percentage is the reported harvest divided by reported hunters, rounded to a whole percent. It describes that year's survey estimates across the unit. It is not an individual prediction.
Compare the same season in the two years shown. A change in the percentage is a reason to investigate further, not proof that the coming season will improve or decline.
Public land is a separate question
The harvest figures include private land. A unit with a high historical harvest ratio may still have few public places you can reach legally. Read the unit's land and boundary section alongside the season table.
Hunters per 100 square miles uses the whole unit's area. It does not measure the number of people in the particular drainage you intend to hunt, or the density on accessible public land.
Match the table to your tag
Your own license controls the animal, dates and units. A unit page is background information, not confirmation that your tag covers every season or every parcel shown.
Use the page to narrow questions: which season are you comparing, what share of the unit is public, and which roads actually reach it? Then check the hunt code and access before choosing a place.
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