Colorado Deer · GMU 126
Colorado GMU 126 covers 431,796 acres and lies 13 miles north of Hasty and 75 miles north of Kim. 15% of it is public land, mostly state land (12%) and Bureau of Reclamation (2%). In 2024, 230 people hunted deer here and took 76, a 33% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE122O1A, put up 300 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 36 nonresident first-choice applicants, 35 of whom drew.
19 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
13% State
431,796 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2024. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Nov 4–30
- Tags / Apps
- 130 / 2
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Oct 10–18
- Tags / Apps
- 80 / 2
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Dec 1–14
- Tags / Apps
- 60 / 6
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Oct 24 – Nov 3
- Tags / Apps
- 20 / 1
- If Drawn
- $636.03
Every License in GMU 126
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE122O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 122 | 97% | 0 | |
| DE122O1A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 122 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DE122O3A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 3 GMU 122 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DE122O3A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 3 GMU 122 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DE122O3M Standard | Deer either-sex muzzleloader season 3 GMU 122 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DE126L2R Standard | Deer either-sex rifle late season GMU 126 | 100% | — | |
| DE126O2R Standard | Deer either-sex rifle season 2 GMU 126 | 100% | — | |
| DF122O2M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 2 GMU 122 | — | — | |
| DF122O3A Standard | Deer female archery season 3 GMU 122 | — | — | |
| DF122O3M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 3 GMU 122 | — | — | |
| DF126L1R Standard | Deer female rifle late season GMU 126 | — | — | |
| DF126L2R Standard | Deer female rifle late season GMU 126 | — | — | |
| DF126O1R Standard | Deer female rifle season 1 GMU 126 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF126O2R Standard | Deer female rifle season 2 GMU 126 | — | — | |
| DM122O2M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 2 GMU 122 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DM126L1R Standard | Deer male rifle late season GMU 126 | 0% | 1 ▲1 | |
| DM126L1R Youth | Deer male rifle late season GMU 126 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DM126O1R Standard | Deer male rifle season 1 GMU 126 | 0% | 1 | |
| DM126O1R Youth | Deer male rifle season 1 GMU 126 | 0% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $636.03 ($129.11 to apply) · Youth $636.03 ($129.11 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 6, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 230 | 76 | 33% |
| 2023 | 213 | 91 | 43% |
| 2022 | 289 | 89 | 31% |
| 2021 | 229 | 65 | 28% |
2024 split: rifle 58 (75%) from 148 hunters, 39%, archery 17 (22%) from 67 hunters, 25%, muzzleloader 2 (3%) from 14 hunters, 14%
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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: CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest; CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest…; CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest.
The Ground
| Private | 366,421 ac | 85% |
| State land | 53,891 ac | 12% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 8,562 ac | 2% |
| Department of Defense | 2,118 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 796 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 5 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 10
- CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest… harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2021 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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