Colorado Deer DE129O2R — GMU 129

deer either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 129 [129]

What you may take
deer either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 129 [129]
Weapon
Rifle
Where
GMU 129
3% public of 225,271 acres
Season (2026)
Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2026
Tags (2025)
7
for 1 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 25%
Hunter success here (2024)
43%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw · no nonresident tags in 2026 — showing 2025

Undersubscribed: 1 of 1 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2025. 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. 1 tags, 1 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 126.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 0%
1 100% 1 1
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
$0

At the 2025 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 (1 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2026 p. 139

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 129, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 241 hunters and 104 deer taken in 2024 — 43% of them killed something. Full GMU 129 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

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 1 0 0.0 1 tagfrom 1 applications 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 139
2024 0 0 2024 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 129
2023 1 1 1.0 0 2023 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 127
2022 8 0 0.0 8 tagsfrom 0 applications 2022 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 125

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Colorado reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years DE129O2R 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 129, 2, 10 7 1 0.1 2025 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 126

Other licenses valid in GMU 129

Legal cartridges for deer in Colorado

From the Colorado hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.243 Winchester depends from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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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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