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Colorado Deer — GMU 125

Colorado GMU 125 covers 374,463 acres and lies 65 miles east of Pueblo and 77 miles south-east of Fountain. 40% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (33%) and state land (6%). In 2024, 198 people hunted deer here and took 64 — 33% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 300 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):595 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:59 Hunter success (2024):33% Public land:40% Size:374,463 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 125, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

18 licenses on offer · 595 tags · 59 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
  • DE122O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132 139, 145, 146] 43 tags · 36 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    97% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE122O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132 139, 145, 146] 300 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DE122O3A deer either-sex archery season 3 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127 129, 130, 132, 139 145, 146] 4 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 8% as 2nd choice
  • DE122O3A deer either-sex archery season 3 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127 129, 130, 132, 139 145, 146] 130 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DE122O3M deer either-sex muzzleloader season 3 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126 127, 129, 130 132, 139, 145 146] 24 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 63% as 2nd choice
  • DE125L2R deer either-sex rifle late season GMU 125 [125, 130] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DE125O2R deer either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 125 [125, 130] 1 tags · 3 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    33% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF122O2M deer female muzzleloader season 2 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 139, 145 146] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF122O3A deer female archery season 3 GMU 122 [129, 130, 132, 139 145, 146] 63 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF122O3M deer female muzzleloader season 3 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126 127, 129, 130 132, 139, 145 146] 13 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF125L1R deer female rifle late season GMU 125 [125, 130] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DF125L2R deer female rifle late season GMU 125 [125, 130] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DF125O1R deer female rifle season 1 GMU 125 [125, 130] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DF125O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 125 [125, 130] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DM122O2M deer male muzzleloader season 2 GMU 122 [122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 139, 145 146] 6 tags · 4 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM125L1R deer male rifle late season GMU 125 [125, 130] 6 tags · 7 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM125L1R deer male rifle late season GMU 125 [125, 130] 1 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM125O1R deer male rifle season 1 GMU 125 [125, 130] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% 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
—
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
—
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 125 within Colorado
119 120 121 124 126 129 130 135 146
GMU 125 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 224,999 ac · 60%
  • County or city land 123,541 ac · 33%
  • State land 22,479 ac · 6%
  • BLM 3,107 ac · 1%
  • National Park Service 334 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 1 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 198 64 33%
2023 264 72 27%
2022 258 91 35%
2021 206 59 29%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 48 · 74% · 117 hunters, 41% success
  • Archery 13 · 20% · 59 hunters, 22% success
  • Muzzleloader 4 · 6% · 22 hunters, 18% 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