Colorado Deer · GMU 142

Colorado GMU 142 covers 235,672 acres and lies 36 miles north-west of Kim and 65 miles south-east of Pueblo. 100% of it is public land, mostly military (100%). In 2024, 84 people hunted deer here and took 16, a 19% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE142O2A, put up 8 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 18 nonresident first-choice applicants, 6 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 2 points.

Tags, 2026
120

8 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
53

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
19%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
100%

100% Other public

Size
368 mi²

235,672 acres

142
19%hunter success 2024 · 84 hunters, 16 deer

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.

None of these licenses drew anyone at your points in 2026: see the table below for the cut on each.

Every License in GMU 142

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DE142O2A Standard 0% 2 ▼2
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DF142L1R Standard — —
DF142O2M Standard — —
DM142L1R Standard 0% (small sample) 20 ▼3
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM142O2M Standard 0% (small sample) 7 ▲3
Youth 0% (small sample) 0

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 84 16 19%
2023 83 54 64%
2022 82 36 44%
2021 84 50 60%

2024 split: rifle 7 (47%) from 32 hunters, 22%, archery 2 (13%) from 29 hunters, 7%, muzzleloader 6 (40%) from 24 hunters, 25%

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

Department of Defense 234,847 ac 100%
Private 521 ac <1%
National Forest 299 ac <1%
State land 3 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 10
  1. CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest… harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. CPW 2021 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. 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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