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Colorado Deer — GMU 63

Colorado GMU 63 covers 236,200 acres and lies 17 miles north-east of Montrose and 27 miles east of Delta. 57% of it is public land, mostly national forest (25%) and BLM (22%). In 2024, 393 people hunted deer here and took 257 — 65% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 71 tags here for 0 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):461 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:405 Hunter success (2024):65% Public land:57% Size:236,200 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 63, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

16 licenses on offer · 461 tags · 405 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
  • DF063P5R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 63 71 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 33% as 2nd choice
  • DF063P5R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 63 70 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 60% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 63 [63] 12 tags · 63 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 63 [63] 55 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
  • DM063O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 63 [63] 7 tags · 29 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 63 [63] 1 tags · 3 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
  • DM063O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 63 24 tags · 93 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 63 2 tags · 9 applicants · needed 4 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 63 [63] 19 tags · 109 applicants · needed 8 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 63 [63] 1 tags · 8 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 63 2 tags · 27 applicants · needed 25 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 63 15 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
  • DM063P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 63 65 tags · 22 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    70% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 63 65 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 63 [63] 51 tags · 37 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM063P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 63 [63] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
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

Montrose Grand Junction Rifle Durango Alamosa
GMU 63 within Colorado
411 52 53 54 62 64 Montrose Delta
GMU 63 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

  • Private 100,593 ac · 43%
  • National Forest 58,585 ac · 25%
  • BLM 51,077 ac · 22%
  • National Park Service 25,163 ac · 11%
  • County or city land 690 ac · 0%
  • Other public 80 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 8 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 393 257 65%
2023 396 286 72%
2022 351 290 83%
2021 345 261 76%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 226 · 88% · 327 hunters, 69% success
  • Archery 20 · 8% · 42 hunters, 48% success
  • Muzzleloader 11 · 4% · 24 hunters, 46% 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