Colorado Deer DM301W1R — GMU 301

deer male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301

What you may take
deer male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301
Weapon
Rifle
Where
GMU 301
15% public of 234,919 acres
Season (2026)
Oct 21–25, 2026
Tags (2026)
4
for 0 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 25%
Hunter success here (2024)
67%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

No first-choice applicants: 4 tags on offer in 2026 and nobody listed this hunt first. Anyone who had would have drawn.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 4 tags, 0 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 1178.

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

Fewer applicants than tags. Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes no per-level applicant counts for this hunt. 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 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 adds a point for next year's draw.

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 (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Oct 21–25, 2026 p. 1178

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 301, Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 547 hunters and 367 deer taken in 2024 — 67% of them killed something. Full GMU 301 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.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2026 4 0 0.0 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 1178
2025 5 0 0.0 2025 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 1020
2024 5 0 0.0 2024 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 1003
2023 7 0 0.0 2023 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 989
2022 7 0 0.0 2022 Primary DEER Post Draw... · p. 979
2021 9 0 0.0 2021 Primary Deer Post Draw... · p. 1005

Other licenses valid in GMU 301

DE003O1A — deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 3 [3, 4, 5, 14, 214, 301, 441] Archery DE003P2R — deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 [3, 4, 5, 14, 214, 301, 441] Rifle DE003P3R — deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 [3, 4, 5, 14, 214, 301, 441] Rifle DE003P4R — deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 [3, 301] Rifle DE004W1R — deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 Rifle DE004W3R — deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 Rifle DE214W2R — deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 214 Rifle DE441W1R — deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 441 Rifle DF003O1M — deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 3 [3, 4, 5, 14, 214, 301, 441] Muzzleloader DF003O2R — deer female rifle season 2 GMU 3 Rifle DF003O3R — deer female rifle season 3 GMU 3 Rifle DF003W1R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 3 Rifle DF004W1R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 Rifle DF004W3R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 Rifle DF214W2R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 214 Rifle DF214W4R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 214 Rifle DF301W1R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301 Rifle DF301W2R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301 Rifle DF301W3R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301 Rifle DF301W4R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301 Rifle DF441W1R — deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 441 Rifle DM003O1M — deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 3 [3, 4, 5, 14, 214, 301, 441] Muzzleloader DM003O2R — deer male rifle season 2 GMU 3 Rifle DM003O3R — deer male rifle season 3 GMU 3 Rifle DM003O4R — deer male rifle season 4 GMU 3 [3, 301] Rifle DM003W1R — deer male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 3 Rifle DM301W2R — deer male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 301 Rifle

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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