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Colorado Deer — GMU 65

Colorado GMU 65 covers 429,778 acres and lies 21 miles south-east of Montrose and 45 miles south-east of Delta. 53% of it is public land, mostly national forest (40%) and BLM (10%). In 2024, 717 people hunted deer here and took 270 — 38% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 110 tags here for 35 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):830 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:595 Hunter success (2024):38% Public land:53% Size:429,778 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 65, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

20 licenses on offer · 830 tags · 595 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
  • DE064P6R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65 – Those portions bounded on the north by the unit boundary; on the east by 2200 Rd, F Rd, Peach Valley Rd, Selig ] 60 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DE064P6R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65 – Those portions bounded on the north by the unit boundary; on the east by 2200 Rd, F Rd, Peach Valley Rd, Selig ] 50 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 100% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 64 [64, 65] 69 tags · 82 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    54% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 64 [64, 65] 8 tags · 4 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    50% Real chance
  • DM064O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 64 [64, 65] 36 tags · 30 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 3% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 64 [64, 65] 100 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O1R deer male rifle season 1 GMU 64 20 tags · 54 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O1R deer male rifle season 1 GMU 64 2 tags · 8 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 64 [64, 65] 88 tags · 107 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    66% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 64 [64, 65] 2 tags · 7 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    71% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 64 [64, 65] 48 tags · 135 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 64 [64, 65] 6 tags · 12 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 64 11 tags · 33 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 64 1 tags · 4 applicants · needed 5 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65] 110 tags · 35 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 26% as 2nd choice
  • DM064P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65] 100 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DM064P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65] 108 tags · 49 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    96% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM064P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 64 [64, 65] 3 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM065E1R deer male rifle early season GMU 65 [That portion of GMU 65 above 11,000 feet elevation] 7 tags · 29 applicants · needed 10 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM065E1R deer male rifle early season GMU 65 [That portion of GMU 65 above 11,000 feet elevation] 1 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 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
—
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
—
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 Durango Grand Junction Rifle Alamosa
GMU 65 within Colorado
54 55 551 61 62 63 64 66 67 70 71 711 74 76 79 Montrose Delta
GMU 65 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 202,507 ac · 47%
  • National Forest 171,923 ac · 40%
  • BLM 42,657 ac · 10%
  • County or city land 11,875 ac · 3%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 494 ac · 0%
  • State land 237 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 83 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 717 270 38%
2023 690 308 45%
2022 747 377 51%
2021 741 414 56%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 231 · 85% · 533 hunters, 43% success
  • Archery 12 · 4% · 119 hunters, 10% success
  • Muzzleloader 28 · 10% · 65 hunters, 43% 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