Colorado Deer · GMU 861
Colorado GMU 861 covers 132,449 acres and lies 34 miles north-east of Alamosa and 49 miles south of Cañon City. 37% of it is public land, mostly national forest (22%) and BLM (12%). In 2024, 59 people hunted deer here and took 20, a 34% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, DM069O3R, put up 500 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 133 nonresident first-choice applicants, 80 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 1 point.
22 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
22% Forest Service
132,449 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.
Every License in GMU 861
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE069O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 | 0% | 1 | |
| DE069O1A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF069O1M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | 1 ▲1 | |
| DF069O1M Youth | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DF069P2R Standard · private | Deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | 0 | |
| DF069P2R Youth · private | Deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DF069P3R Standard · private | Deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | — | |
| DF069P3R Youth · private | Deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM069O1M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 75% | 0 | |
| DM069O1M Youth | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DM069O2R Standard | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% | 1 | |
| DM069O2R Youth | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% | 0 | |
| DM069O3R Standard | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 0% | 1 | |
| DM069O3R Youth | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 0% | 0 | |
| DM069O4R Standard | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 69 | 0% | 4 | |
| DM069O4R Youth | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DM069P2R Standard · private | Deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | — | |
| DM069P2R Youth · private | Deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM069P3R Standard · private | Deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | — | |
| DM069P3R Youth · private | Deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | — | |
| DM082E1R Standard | Deer male rifle early season GMU 82 | 0% | 6 ▼4 | |
| DM082E1R Youth | Deer male rifle early season GMU 82 | 0% (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 (summed) | 59 | 20 | 34% |
| 2023 | 71 | 36 | 50% |
| 2022 | 78 | 21 | 27% |
| 2021 | 53 | 20 | 38% |
2024 split: rifle 18 (90%) from 39 hunters, 46%, archery 2 (10%), muzzleloader 0 (0%) from 14 hunters, 0%
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes no whole-GMU line for 2024; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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
| Private | 83,245 ac | 63% |
| National Forest | 29,487 ac | 22% |
| BLM | 15,862 ac | 12% |
| State land | 3,850 ac | 3% |
| National Park Service | 3 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 0 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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