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Colorado Deer — GMU 121

Colorado GMU 121 covers 671,416 acres and lies 81 miles east of Fountain. 4% of it is public land, mostly state land (4%). In 2024, 93 people hunted deer here and took 34 — 36% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 90 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):425 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:23 Hunter success (2024):36% Public land:4% Size:671,416 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 121, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

12 licenses on offer · 425 tags · 23 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DE107O2R deer either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113 114, 115, 120 121] 59 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Undersubscribed
  • DE107O3M deer either-sex muzzleloader season 3 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113 114, 115, 120 121] 21 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DE112O2A deer either-sex archery season 2 GMU 112 [112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121] 29 tags · 8 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DE112O2A deer either-sex archery season 2 GMU 112 [112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121] 90 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DE112O4A deer either-sex archery season 4 GMU 112 [112, 113, 114, 115 120, 121] 31 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF107O2M deer female muzzleloader season 2 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121] 19 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF107O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113 114, 115, 120 121] 68 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF107O3M deer female muzzleloader season 3 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113 114, 115, 120 121] 15 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF112O4A deer female archery season 4 GMU 112 [112, 113, 114, 115 120, 121] 29 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF120O1R deer female rifle season 1 GMU 120 [120, 121] 31 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DM107O2M deer male muzzleloader season 2 GMU 107 [107, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121] 22 tags · 6 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DM120O1R deer male rifle season 1 GMU 120 [120, 121] 11 tags · 8 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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Colorado lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03
Youth license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Pueblo Fountain Monument Castle Rock Aurora
GMU 121 within Colorado
111 112 113 114 115 116 117 119 120 122 124 125 126 127 129
GMU 121 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 642,677 ac · 96%
  • State land 28,240 ac · 4%
  • BLM 404 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 94 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 93 34 36%
2023 105 45 43%
2022 101 52 51%
2021 131 54 41%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 24 · 71% · 71 hunters, 34% success
  • Archery 6 · 18% · 15 hunters, 40% success
  • Muzzleloader 4 · 12% · 7 hunters, 57% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado deer hunts