Colorado Deer · GMU 19

Colorado GMU 19 covers 270,820 acres and lies 22 miles west of Fort Collins. 62% of it is public land, mostly national forest (60%) and state land (2%). In 2024, 1,138 people hunted deer here and took 333, a 29% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DM019O3R, put up 615 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 79 nonresident first-choice applicants, 54 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
6,290

16 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
319

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
29%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
62%

60% Forest Service

Size
423 mi²

270,820 acres

Fort Collins Loveland Wellington Berthoud 19
29%hunter success 2024 · 1,138 hunters, 333 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.

Every License in GMU 19

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DE007O1A Standard 91% 0
Youth 100% (small sample) 0
DF007O1M Standard 75% 0
Youth 100% (small sample) 0
DF009L1R Standard 0% (small sample) —
DF009O2R Standard 0% (small sample) 1
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DF009O3R Standard 0% (small sample) 1 ▲1
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
DM007O1M Standard 100% —
Youth 100% —
DM019O2R Standard 100% 0
Youth 75% (small sample) 0
DM019O3R Standard 56% 0
Youth 67% (small sample) 0
DM019O4R Standard 56% 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 1,138 333 29%
2023 1,015 281 28%
2022 973 323 33%
2021 931 328 35%

2024 split: rifle 284 (85%) from 778 hunters, 37%, archery 28 (8%) from 246 hunters, 11%, muzzleloader 21 (6%) from 113 hunters, 19%

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

National Forest 163,303 ac 60%
Private 102,030 ac 38%
State land 4,950 ac 2%
County or city land 526 ac <1%
National Park Service 10 ac <1%
BLM 0 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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Prior-draw odds from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Colorado deer hunts