Colorado Deer DE041P5A — GMU 41

deer either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 41 [Orchard Mesa Canal and 38 Rd; on the south by the #2]

GMU 41 within Colorado

What you may take: deer either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 41 [Orchard Mesa Canal and 38 Rd; on the south by the #2]
Weapon: Archery; Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where: GMU 41; 63% public of 209,743 acres
Season (2026): Sep 2 – Dec 31, 2026
Tags (2026): 59; for 21 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 25%
Hunter success here (2024): 50%; of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 21 of 50 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 50 tags, 21 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 65.

Points	Your chance	Applicants	Drawn
0	100%	19	19
1	100%	2	2
2–10	100% same chance at every one of these levels	—	—

Preference points, computed from published point-level pools. A dash means Colorado Parks and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$129.11

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$129.11

Total if drawn

$636.03

Refunded if unsuccessful

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $636.03 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident limited-license application-processing fee (per species, per draw) · paid at application $11.49 source

Nonresident annual small game license (cheapest qualifying license to enter the draws; base $102.11 + surcharges) · paid at application $104.86 or $194.21 source

Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp (ages 18-64, once per license year, added automatically) · paid at application $12.76 source

Preference point fee, deer/elk/pronghorn (none until the 2028 draw) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $0 source

Nonresident deer license (adult, includes fishing combo; base $504.17 + surcharges) - charged only if drawn · paid if drawn, refundable $506.92 source

Optional, not counted above: Hunt-code exchange fee (same species, quota remaining, before season starts) $5 and License refund processing fee (most refunds) $15.

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $0 (Mar 1 – Apr 7, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 0-point cut.

Next application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 26. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (2 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Sep 2 – Dec 31, 2026 p. 65

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 41, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 579 hunters and 288 deer taken in 2024 — 50% of them killed something. Full GMU 41 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

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. Source: 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest Estimates

As a lower choice

2nd choice

Tags issued to lower choices ÷ lower-choice applicants, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Colorado runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Random pass	Source
2026	59	21	0.4	0	9 tagsfrom 2 applications	2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 65
2024	51	8	0.2	0	1 tagfrom 2 applications	2024 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 54
2023	52	6	0.1	—	2 tagsfrom 0 applications	2023 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 54
2022	131	3	0.0	—	31 tagsfrom 0 applications	2022 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 54
2021	75	2	0.0	—	—	2021 Primary Deer Post Draw... · p. 53

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Colorado reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years DE041P5A stood for another gmu or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Source
2025 · GMU 41, 38, 2	50	13	0.3	0	2025 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 54

Other licenses valid in GMU 41

DE041O1A — deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Archery DF041O1M — deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Muzzleloader DF041O2R — deer female rifle season 2 GMU 41 Rifle DF041O3R — deer female rifle season 3 GMU 41 Rifle DF041P5A — deer female archery private-land-only GMU 41 [Orchard Mesa Canal and38 Rd; on the south by the #2] Archery DM041O1M — deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Muzzleloader DM041O2R — deer male rifle season 2 GMU 41 Rifle DM041O3R — deer male rifle season 3 GMU 41 Rifle DM041O4R — deer male rifle season 4 GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Rifle DM041P2R — deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Rifle DM041P3R — deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 41 [41, 42, 421] Rifle

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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