Colorado Deer · GMU 8
Colorado GMU 8 covers 269,124 acres and lies 39 miles west of Wellington. 77% of it is public land, mostly national forest (67%) and BLM (6%). In 2024, 1,335 people hunted deer here and took 241, a 18% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE007O1A, put up 900 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 74 nonresident first-choice applicants, 68 of whom drew.
16 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
67% Forest Service
269,124 acres
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.
- Success
- 18%
- Season
- Sep 2–30
- Tags / Apps
- 900 / 74
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 18%
- Season
- Sep 12–20
- Tags / Apps
- 200 / 5
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 18%
- Season
- Nov 7–15
- Tags / Apps
- 80 / 2
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 18%
- Season
- Sep 12–20
- Tags / Apps
- 550 / 51
- If Drawn
- $636.03
Every License in GMU 8
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE007O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 7 | 91% | 0 | |
| DE007O1A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 7 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF007O1M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 | 75% | 0 | |
| DF007O1M Youth | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF007O2R Standard | Deer female rifle season 2 GMU 7 | 0% (small sample) | 1 ▲1 | |
| DF007O2R Youth | Deer female rifle season 2 GMU 7 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DF007O3R Standard | Deer female rifle season 3 GMU 7 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF007O3R Youth | Deer female rifle season 3 GMU 7 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM007O1M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 | 100% | — | |
| DM007O1M Youth | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 | 100% | — | |
| DM007O2R Standard | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 7 | 45% | 0 | |
| DM007O2R Youth | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 7 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DM007O3R Standard | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 7 | 54% | 0 | |
| DM007O3R Youth | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 7 | 50% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DM007O4R Standard | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 7 | 58% | 0 | |
| DM007O4R Youth | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 7 | 67% (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 | 1,335 | 241 | 18% |
| 2023 | 1,218 | 202 | 17% |
| 2022 | 1,307 | 168 | 13% |
| 2021 | 1,157 | 230 | 20% |
2024 split: rifle 119 (50%) from 616 hunters, 19%, archery 88 (37%) from 404 hunters, 22%, muzzleloader 33 (14%) from 314 hunters, 11%
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 | 179,762 ac | 67% |
| Private | 61,633 ac | 23% |
| BLM | 16,604 ac | 6% |
| State land | 10,920 ac | 4% |
| County or city land | 163 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 10
- CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest… harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2021 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- 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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