Colorado Deer DF135O1R — GMU 135

deer female rifle season 1 GMU 135 [135]

What you may take
deer female rifle season 1 GMU 135 [135]
Weapon
Rifle
Where
GMU 135
43% public of 475,623 acres
Season (2026)
Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2026
Tags (2026)
20
for 10 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2024)
46%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice resident applicant. 20 tags, 10 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 468.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 86% 7 6
1 100% 3 3
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 resident fees)

Cash to apply
$60.18
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$60.18
Total if drawn
$111.43
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $111.43 (enough points to draw) to $121.46 (lowest published odds).

Resident limited-license application-processing fee (per species, per draw) · paid at application $8.93 source
Resident annual small game license (qualifying license) · paid at application $38.49 source
Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp (ages 18-64, once per license year, added automatically; same price for residents) · 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
Resident adult deer license · paid if drawn, refundable $51.25 source

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: Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2026 p. 468

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 135, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 107 hunters and 50 deer taken in 2024 — 46% of them killed something. Full GMU 135 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
15%

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

Year by year

The standard draw for residents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2026 20 10 0.5 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 468
2024 20 23 1.2 0 2024 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 440
2023 20 21 1.1 0 2023 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 436
2022 25 12 0.5 2022 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 428
2021 25 18 0.7 2021 Primary Deer Post Draw... · p. 437

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Colorado reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years DF135O1R 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 135, 1, 30 20 16 0.8 0 2025 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 441

Other licenses valid in GMU 135

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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