Colorado Mule Deer Elk Moose Bear

Unit 43

Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Elk, Moose, Bear

Unit 43 lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties and covers about 745 square miles. Ground runs from 6,162 to 14,244 feet. CPW bounds it by Capitol Creek and Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 42%. Federal land covers about 76% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 43

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 43

What CPW publishes for unit 43 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties. It runs to about 745 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Capitol Creek, Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide and Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide

CPW has unit 43 bounded on the north by the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River; on the east by Capitol Creek, the ridgeline of Elk Mountains fr Capitol Peak to Snowmass Mountain, and the Pitkin-Gunnison Co. line; on the south by the divide between Crystal River-East River drainages; on the south and west by Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide; and on the west by the McClure Pass, Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide, Divide Creek-Crystal River divide, Baldy Creek-Crystal River divide, and South Canyon Creek. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Castle Peak, Maroon Bells and Maroon Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Castle Peak at 14,244 feet, Maroon Bells at 14,129 feet, Maroon Peak at 14,129 feet, Elk Mountains at 14,129 feet and Snowmass Mountain at 14,082 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Heckert Pass, Conundrum Basin and Buckskin Pass

Below them sit Heckert Pass at 12,535 feet, Conundrum Basin at 12,484 feet, Buckskin Pass at 12,402 feet, West Maroon Pass at 12,369 feet and Frigid Air Pass at 12,358 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Beaver Lake SWA, Sam Caudill SWA and Williams Hill SWA

CPW lists Beaver Lake SWA, Sam Caudill SWA and Williams Hill SWA inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 76% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Penny Hot Springs and Conundrum Hot Springs

The water inside the unit line comes to 11,639 mapped stream reaches, 47 lakes and 877 stock tanks. Named sources include Penny Hot Springs and Conundrum Hot Springs. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-13

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-13, and unit 43 is one piece of it. The rest of D-13 is unit 47, unit 431 and unit 471. Read a neighbour in the same herd before you read the state average — the herd, not the unit line, is what the agency is steering.

Unit 43 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

6,812–11,253 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,145 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
744.9 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

877 tanks
11,639 stream segments
47 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Castle Peak (14,244 ft), Maroon Bells (14,129 ft), Snowmass Mountain (14,082 ft), Capitol Peak (14,076 ft)

Holding ground: Electric Pass (13,416 ft), Coffeepot Pass (12,767 ft), Willow Pass (12,577 ft), Beaver Lake SWA, Williams Hill SWA

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 43

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 43 at archery 37% and rifle 42%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Pyramid Peak, Cathedral Peak and Hagerman Peak

Take a position on one of Pyramid Peak (13,949 ft), Cathedral Peak (13,922 ft), Hagerman Peak (13,774 ft) and Hayden Peak (13,546 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 11,639 mapped stream reaches and 877 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 71/41°F, Oct 59/30°F and Nov 45/20°F. By Nov the lows are around 20°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 1.6 in. in Sep, 1.6 in. in Oct and 1.4 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CR 15 and FR 300.3

I 70 and CO 133 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. FR 300.3 and FR 300.3N need clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter. 4 mapped public entry points fall inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 43 sits inside D-13

Across D-13, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 40% in unit 43, 39% in unit 47 and 23% in unit 471. Unit 43 is the best of them on that measure, which usually means fewer tags rather than more animals. Success inside one herd moves with tag numbers and season length as much as with animals, so read the licence count alongside it.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Castle Peak, Maroon Bells, Snowmass Mountain and Capitol Peak as places to see from, and Electric Pass, Coffeepot Pass, Willow Pass and Beaver Lake SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 43

Named routes and what they need

CR 15 — 5.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 300.3 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 16 — 4.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
I 70 — 3.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 300.3N — 3.7 mi · High-clearance
CO 133 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Snowmass Village — 10.7 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Marble — 11 mi · no services listed
Basalt — 11.3 mi · groceries
El Jebel — 12 mi · fuel, groceries
Carbondale — 12.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 10° · 1.4" precip
Aug78° / 48° · 1.5" precip
Sep71° / 41° · 1.6" precip
Oct59° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov45° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec34° / 11° · 1.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 9% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Colorado has no general off-road retrieval allowance. Travel stays on designated routes, so plan to pack every animal out on your back or with stock. Check the forest or BLM travel map for the roads that are actually open in hunting season.

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

All manners of take40%

Archery37%

Rifle42%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 43 at 40% — 276 animals taken by 693 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Archery — 37% success, 41 taken by 112 hunters
Rifle — 42% success, 187 taken by 449 hunters

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check CPW's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	125	277	45.1%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	43	136	31.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	13	27	48.1%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	3	6	50.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (resident)	9	38	23.7%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (nonresident)	8	9	88.9%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	7	20	35.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	4	5	80.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (resident)	7	23	30.4%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	7	207	3.4%	1
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	1	26	3.8%	1
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (resident)	8	178	4.5%	1
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	3	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	23	144	16.0%	4
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	7	69	10.1%	9
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	204	516	39.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	85	341	24.9%	1
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	73	479	15.2%	1
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	27	232	11.6%	5
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	11	211	5.2%	4
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	4	92	4.3%	10
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	3	6	50.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	7	50	14.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	12	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	50	133	37.6%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	104	240	43.3%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for mule deer in unit 43, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM043O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, resident: 516 applicants for 204 licences, 39.5% drawn, no preference points needed
DM043O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, resident: 479 applicants for 73 licences, 15.2% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DM043O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 341 applicants for 85 licences, 24.9% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DE043O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 277 applicants for 125 licences, 45.1% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 21 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Elk Hunting in Unit 43

Unit 43 lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties and covers about 745 square miles. Ground runs from 6,162 to 14,244 feet. CPW bounds it by Capitol Creek and Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 12%. Federal land covers about 76% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Elk in Unit 43

What CPW publishes for unit 43 is a boundary, not a elk map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties. It runs to about 745 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Capitol Creek, Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide and Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide

CPW has unit 43 bounded on the north by the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River; on the east by Capitol Creek, the ridgeline of Elk Mountains fr Capitol Peak to Snowmass Mountain, and the Pitkin-Gunnison Co. line; on the south by the divide between Crystal River-East River drainages; on the south and west by Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide; and on the west by the McClure Pass, Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide, Divide Creek-Crystal River divide, Baldy Creek-Crystal River divide, and South Canyon Creek. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Capitol Peak, North Maroon Peak and Conundrum Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Capitol Peak at 14,076 feet, North Maroon Peak at 14,015 feet, Conundrum Peak at 13,999 feet, Pyramid Peak at 13,949 feet and Cathedral Peak at 13,922 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Trail Rider Pass, Avalanche Pass and East Maroon Pass

Below them sit Trail Rider Pass at 12,348 feet, Avalanche Pass at 12,101 feet, East Maroon Pass at 11,835 feet, Yule Pass at 11,722 feet and Fravert Basin at 11,474 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Beaver Lake SWA, Sam Caudill SWA and Williams Hill SWA

Water: Penny Hot Springs and Conundrum Hot Springs

The herd this unit belongs to: E-15

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-15, and unit 43 is one piece of it. The rest of E-15 is unit 431 and unit 471. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

Unit 43 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

6,812–11,253 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,145 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
744.9 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

877 tanks
11,639 stream segments
47 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Castle Peak (14,244 ft), Maroon Bells (14,129 ft), Snowmass Mountain (14,082 ft), Capitol Peak (14,076 ft)

Holding ground: Electric Pass (13,416 ft), Coffeepot Pass (12,767 ft), Willow Pass (12,577 ft), Beaver Lake SWA, Williams Hill SWA

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Elk in Unit 43

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 43 at archery 8%, muzzleloader 12% and rifle 12%. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Snowmass Peak, Clark Peak and Treasure Mountain

Take a position on one of Snowmass Peak (13,527 ft), Clark Peak (13,516 ft), Treasure Mountain (13,516 ft) and Keefe Peak (13,490 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 11,639 mapped stream reaches and 877 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CR 15 and FR 300.3

Where unit 43 sits inside E-15

Across E-15, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 11% in unit 43 and 4% in unit 471. Unit 43 is the best of them on that measure, which usually means fewer tags rather than more animals. Success inside one herd moves with tag numbers and season length as much as with animals, so read the licence count alongside it.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Castle Peak, Maroon Bells, Snowmass Mountain and Capitol Peak as places to see from, and Electric Pass, Coffeepot Pass, Willow Pass and Beaver Lake SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 43

Named routes and what they need

CR 15 — 5.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 300.3 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 16 — 4.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
I 70 — 3.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 300.3N — 3.7 mi · High-clearance
CO 133 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Snowmass Village — 10.7 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Marble — 11 mi · no services listed
Basalt — 11.3 mi · groceries
El Jebel — 12 mi · fuel, groceries
Carbondale — 12.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 10° · 1.4" precip
Aug78° / 48° · 1.5" precip
Sep71° / 41° · 1.6" precip
Oct59° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov45° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec34° / 11° · 1.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 9% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

All manners of take11%

Archery8%

Muzzleloader12%

Rifle12%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 43 at 11% — 325 animals taken by 3,044 hunters. That is a lot of hunters in one unit, and the percentage is what it looks like after all of them have been through it.

Archery — 8% success, 81 taken by 1,058 hunters
Muzzleloader — 12% success, 22 taken by 181 hunters
Rifle — 12% success, 222 taken by 1,804 hunters

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	138	281	49.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	73	167	43.7%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	47	174	27.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	15	41	36.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	8	21	38.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	33	195	16.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	33	3.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	168	356	47.2%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	37	57	64.9%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	25	180	13.9%	1
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	4	15	26.7%	1
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	96	322	29.8%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	18	32	56.3%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	52	193	26.9%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	13	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	20	65	30.8%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	27	3.7%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (resident)	52	91	57.1%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	120	194	61.9%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	281	533	52.7%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	5	21	23.8%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for elk in unit 43, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EE043V1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 533 applicants for 281 licences, 52.7% drawn, no preference points needed
EF043O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Cow Only, resident: 356 applicants for 168 licences, 47.2% drawn, no preference points needed
EF043O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Cow Only, resident: 322 applicants for 96 licences, 29.8% drawn, no preference points needed
EE043O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 281 applicants for 138 licences, 49.1% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 18 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Moose Hunting in Unit 43

Unit 43 lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties and covers about 745 square miles. Ground runs from 6,162 to 14,244 feet. CPW bounds it by Capitol Creek and Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 75%. Federal land covers about 76% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 43

CPW draws an exact line around unit 43 and says nothing about where the Shiras moose stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties. It runs to about 745 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Capitol Creek, Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide and Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide

CPW has unit 43 bounded on the north by the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River; on the east by Capitol Creek, the ridgeline of Elk Mountains fr Capitol Peak to Snowmass Mountain, and the Pitkin-Gunnison Co. line; on the south by the divide between Crystal River-East River drainages; on the south and west by Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide; and on the west by the McClure Pass, Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide, Divide Creek-Crystal River divide, Baldy Creek-Crystal River divide, and South Canyon Creek. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Hagerman Peak, Hayden Peak and Snowmass Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Hagerman Peak at 13,774 feet, Hayden Peak at 13,546 feet, Snowmass Peak at 13,527 feet, Clark Peak at 13,516 feet and Treasure Mountain at 13,516 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.

Holding ground: Hasley Basin, Buckskin Basin and Bear Basin

Below them sit Hasley Basin at 11,274 feet, Buckskin Basin at 11,245 feet, Bear Basin at 11,216 feet, Paradise Basin at 11,114 feet and Schofield Pass at 10,720 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Beaver Lake SWA, Sam Caudill SWA and Williams Hill SWA

Water: Penny Hot Springs and Conundrum Hot Springs

The herd this unit belongs to: M-5

CPW does not manage Shiras moose unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit M-5, and unit 43 is one piece of it. The rest of M-5 is unit 41, unit 42, unit 52, unit 53, unit 54, unit 63, unit 64 and unit 411 and 2 more. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

Unit 43 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

6,812–11,253 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,145 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
744.9 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

877 tanks
11,639 stream segments
47 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Castle Peak (14,244 ft), Maroon Bells (14,129 ft), Snowmass Mountain (14,082 ft), Capitol Peak (14,076 ft)

Holding ground: Electric Pass (13,416 ft), Coffeepot Pass (12,767 ft), Willow Pass (12,577 ft), Beaver Lake SWA, Williams Hill SWA

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Shiras Moose in Unit 43

CPW's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 43 at 75% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Glassing from Hunter Peak, Treasury Mountain and Sleeping Sexton

Take a position on one of Hunter Peak (13,479 ft), Treasury Mountain (13,456 ft), Sleeping Sexton (13,414 ft) and Hilliard Peak (13,381 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CR 15 and FR 300.3

Where unit 43 sits inside M-5

Across M-5, CPW's 2023 Shiras moose success runs 100% in unit 53, 100% in unit 54, 80% in unit 521, 75% in unit 43 and 60% in unit 42. That puts unit 43 behind 3 of the 7 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 53 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 43

Named routes and what they need

CR 15 — 5.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 300.3 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 16 — 4.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
I 70 — 3.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 300.3N — 3.7 mi · High-clearance
CO 133 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Snowmass Village — 10.7 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Marble — 11 mi · no services listed
Basalt — 11.3 mi · groceries
El Jebel — 12 mi · fuel, groceries
Carbondale — 12.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 10° · 1.4" precip
Aug78° / 48° · 1.5" precip
Sep71° / 41° · 1.6" precip
Oct59° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov45° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec34° / 11° · 1.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 9% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

All manners of take75%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 43 at 75% — 3 animals taken by 4 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (resident)	2	298	0.7%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	3	88	3.4%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit 43, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

MM043O1X — Any Legal Method, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 298 applicants for 2 licences, 0.7% drawn, 3 preference points needed
MF043O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 88 applicants for 3 licences, 3.4% drawn, 3 preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Bear Hunting in Unit 43

Unit 43 lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties and covers about 745 square miles. Ground runs from 6,162 to 14,244 feet. CPW bounds it by Capitol Creek and Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide among others. CPW publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. Federal land covers about 76% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Black Bear in Unit 43

CPW draws an exact line around unit 43 and says nothing about where the black bear stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties. It runs to about 745 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Capitol Creek, Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide and Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide

CPW has unit 43 bounded on the north by the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River; on the east by Capitol Creek, the ridgeline of Elk Mountains fr Capitol Peak to Snowmass Mountain, and the Pitkin-Gunnison Co. line; on the south by the divide between Crystal River-East River drainages; on the south and west by Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide; and on the west by the McClure Pass, Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide, Divide Creek-Crystal River divide, Baldy Creek-Crystal River divide, and South Canyon Creek. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Keefe Peak, Hunter Peak and Treasury Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Keefe Peak at 13,490 feet, Hunter Peak at 13,479 feet, Treasury Mountain at 13,456 feet, Sleeping Sexton at 13,414 feet and Hilliard Peak at 13,381 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.

Holding ground: Elko Park, Schofield Park and Gallo Hill

Below them sit Elko Park at 10,605 feet, Schofield Park at 10,538 feet, Gallo Hill at 10,265 feet, Minnehaha Gulch at 10,153 feet and Anthracite Pass at 10,146 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Beaver Lake SWA, Sam Caudill SWA and Williams Hill SWA

Water: Penny Hot Springs and Conundrum Hot Springs

Unit 43 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

6,812–11,253 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,145 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
744.9 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

877 tanks
11,639 stream segments
47 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Castle Peak (14,244 ft), Maroon Bells (14,129 ft), Snowmass Mountain (14,082 ft), Capitol Peak (14,076 ft)

Holding ground: Electric Pass (13,416 ft), Coffeepot Pass (12,767 ft), Willow Pass (12,577 ft), Beaver Lake SWA, Williams Hill SWA

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit 43

CPW publishes no black bear success figure for unit 43 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Precarious Peak, Leahy Peak and Mount Daly

Take a position on one of Precarious Peak (13,341 ft), Leahy Peak (13,307 ft), Mount Daly (13,295 ft) and Malemute Peak (13,255 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CR 15 and FR 300.3

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Castle Peak, Maroon Bells, Snowmass Mountain and Capitol Peak as places to see from, and Electric Pass, Coffeepot Pass, Willow Pass and Beaver Lake SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

745 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Snowmass Village, about 11 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 4,441 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit 43

Named routes and what they need

CR 15 — 5.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
FR 300.3 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 16 — 4.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
I 70 — 3.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 300.3N — 3.7 mi · High-clearance
CO 133 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Snowmass Village — 10.7 mi · groceries, lodging, gear
Marble — 11 mi · no services listed
Basalt — 11.3 mi · groceries
El Jebel — 12 mi · fuel, groceries
Carbondale — 12.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free
Unnamed camp site — 1 sites · Free

Season weather and signal

Jan34° / 10° · 1.4" precip
Aug78° / 48° · 1.5" precip
Sep71° / 41° · 1.6" precip
Oct59° / 30° · 1.6" precip
Nov45° / 20° · 1.4" precip
Dec34° / 11° · 1.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 9% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Bear: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Bear Success Rates

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit 43 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. CPW's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	20	39	51.3%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	11	11	100.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (resident)	9	13	69.2%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	11	12	91.7%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	131	187	70.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	36	63	57.1%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2026 draw recap for black bear in unit 43, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

BE043O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 187 applicants for 131 licences, 70.1% drawn, no preference points needed
BE043O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 63 applicants for 36 licences, 57.1% drawn, no preference points needed
BE043O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 39 applicants for 20 licences, 51.3% drawn, no preference points needed
BE043O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 13 applicants for 9 licences, 69.2% drawn, no preference points needed

No preference points were needed for the codes above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. There are 2 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

58 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Bogan Flats Group Campground, Silver Bar Campground and Avalanche campground.

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Road Conditions

CR 15, FR 300.3 and CR 16 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 21 mi paved, 4 mi gravel and 5 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

6,812–11,253 ft, averaging 9,145. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 71/41°F, 1.6 in.; Oct 59/30°F, 1.6 in.; Nov 45/20°F, 1.4 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 9%, AT&T 6%, T-Mobile 3% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Snowmass Village (11 mi), Marble (11 mi), Basalt (11 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 43?

Unit 43 lies in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River; on the east by Capitol Creek, the ridgeline of Elk Mountains fr Capitol Peak to Snowmass Mountain, and the Pitkin-Gunnison Co. line; on the south by the divide between Crystal River-East River drainages; on the south and west by Crystal River-Anthracite Creek divide; and on the west by the McClure Pass, Muddy Creek-Crystal River divide, Divide Creek-Crystal River divide, Baldy Creek-Crystal River divide, and South Canyon Creek. It covers about 745 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 43?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 43 at 40% across all manners of take, and archery 37% and rifle 42% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 43 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 43 are at Snowmass Village, about 11 miles from the unit's centre, with Marble at about 11 miles. There are also 58 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the elk success rate in unit 43?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 43 at 11% across all manners of take, and archery 8%, muzzleloader 12% and rifle 12% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 43?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 43 at 75% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the black bear success rate in unit 43?

CPW publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 43 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check CPW's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-23.

Colorado Big Game Hunting Brochure — Game Management Unit (GMU) Descriptions (pp. 79-80-81-82) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Data analysis unit (DAU) the unit belongs to · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 43, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
CPW CPWAdminData feature service — GMU and sheep/goat unit boundaries — Colorado Parks and Wildlife GIS Unit · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Elk Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for elk in unit 43, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Moose Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for Shiras moose in unit 43, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22