Colorado Deer · GMU 62

Colorado GMU 62 covers 880,843 acres and lies 17 miles south-west of Delta and 43 miles south-east of Grand Junction. 70% of it is public land, mostly BLM (40%) and national forest (29%). In 2024, 1,374 people hunted deer here and took 599, a 44% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DM062O3R, put up 325 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 333 nonresident first-choice applicants, 65 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 5 points.

Tags, 2026
3,870

20 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
1,110

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
44%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
70%

40% BLM

Size
1,376 mi²

880,843 acres

Delta Montrose Grand Junction 62
44%hunter success 2024 · 1,374 hunters, 599 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 62

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DE062P6R Standard · private 0% —
DF062P2R Standard · private 100% —
DF062P3R Standard · private 100% —
DM062O1A Standard 0% 1
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM062O1M Standard 35% 0 ▼2
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM062O1R Standard 0% 1
Youth 0% 0
DM062O2R Standard 0% 2 ▲1
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
DM062O3R Standard 0% 5 ▲1
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM062O4R Standard 0% 10
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM062P1R Standard · private 100% —
DM062P2R Standard · private 100% —
Youth · private 100% (small sample) —
DM062P3R Standard · private 100% —
Youth · private 100% (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 1,374 599 44%
2023 1,403 644 46%
2022 1,246 598 48%
2021 1,271 663 52%

2024 split: rifle 512 (85%) from 1,067 hunters, 48%, archery 30 (5%) from 174 hunters, 17%, muzzleloader 58 (10%) from 133 hunters, 44%

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

BLM 349,481 ac 40%
Private 264,543 ac 30%
National Forest 255,267 ac 29%
State land 8,537 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 2,855 ac <1%
County or city land 157 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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