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Colorado Deer — GMU 33

Colorado GMU 33 covers 266,311 acres and lies 13 miles north-east of Rifle and 37 miles west of Gypsum. 75% of it is public land, mostly national forest (45%) and BLM (29%). In 2024, 1,242 people hunted deer here and took 429 — 35% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 193 tags here for 333 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):841 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:687 Hunter success (2024):35% Public land:75% Size:266,311 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 33, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

17 licenses on offer · 841 tags · 687 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
  • DE033O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 33 [33] 42 tags · 29 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 2% as 2nd choice
  • DE033O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 33 [33] 12 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF033O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 33 [33] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF033O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 33 [33] 10 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF033P5R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 33 10 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DF033P6R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 33 [33 - Those portions bounded on the north by Co Rd 226 and Co Rd 245 ; on the east by Elk Creek ; on the south by the Col] 10 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 50% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 33 [33] 41 tags · 17 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 83% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 33 [33] 22 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 33 184 tags · 170 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 4% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 33 7 tags · 7 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 33 [33] 193 tags · 333 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    28% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 33 [33] 13 tags · 29 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    19% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 33 24 tags · 67 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 33 2 tags · 7 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM033P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 33 104 tags · 9 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 20% as 2nd choice
  • DM033P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 33 [33] 123 tags · 13 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 64% as 2nd choice
  • DM033P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 33 [33] 43 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
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
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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

Rifle Craig Grand Junction Delta Boulder
GMU 33 within Colorado
22 23 24 25 32 34 42 Rifle Glenwood Springs
GMU 33 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

  • National Forest 120,308 ac · 45%
  • BLM 76,056 ac · 29%
  • Private 66,249 ac · 25%
  • County or city land 3,474 ac · 1%
  • Other public 202 ac · 0%
  • State land 21 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 0 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 1,242 429 35%
2023 1,152 361 31%
2022 1,242 338 27%
2021 1,277 497 39%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 366 · 85% · 965 hunters, 38% success
  • Archery 30 · 7% · 133 hunters, 23% success
  • Muzzleloader 34 · 8% · 144 hunters, 24% 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