Colorado Deer · GMU 371

Colorado GMU 371 covers 109,939 acres and lies 40 miles east of Gypsum and 53 miles west of Golden. 86% of it is public land, mostly national forest (85%). In 2024, 76 people hunted deer here and took 11, a 15% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DM018O3R, put up 800 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 346 nonresident first-choice applicants, 175 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
6,040

17 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
857

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
15%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
86%

86% Forest Service

Size
172 mi²

109,939 acres

371
15%hunter success 2024 · 76 hunters, 11 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 371

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DE018O1A Standard 72% 0
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DE018P2R Standard · private 91% 0
DE018P3R Standard · private 0% 0
Youth · private 0% (small sample) 0
DF018O1M Standard not open —
DF018O2R Standard 0% (small sample) 2 ▲2
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DF018O3R Standard 0% (small sample) —
DM018O1M Standard 100% —
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DM018O2R Standard 99% —
Youth 100% —
DM018O3R Standard 33% 0
Youth 13% (small sample) 0
DM018O4R Standard 0% 2
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 76 11 15%
2023 202 28 14%
2022 342 69 20%
2021 523 24 5%

2024 split: rifle 11 (100%) from 55 hunters, 20%, archery 0 (0%) from 10 hunters, 0%, muzzleloader 0 (0%) from 11 hunters, 0%

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 93,953 ac 85%
Private 15,944 ac 15%
State land 41 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