Photo courtesy of Emily Wettersten
Hunters and a dog wait at daybreak to work a field for pheasants in southeast Colorado. 
Getting your player ready...
Tuesday is leftover day for the 2021 Colorado big game hunting license. Licenses go on sale on a first-come, first-serve basis starting at 9 a.m.
There are 33,109 licenses available across 976 hunt codes on the leftover list. While this is far fewer than 2020, it’s due to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s efforts to make more reissued licenses available through a secondary draw.
After the primary and secondary draws, licenses are leftover for elk, deer, pronghorn, bears, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, desert bighorn sheep, mountain goats and moose.
There’s a on how to make these purchases on
If you miss out on a limited license, there are over-the-counter licenses available.
