Unit 3 either-sex deer, rifle
- Hunt code
- DE003P3R
- Unit
- 3
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 132 of 132 residents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
In 2026, 359 of 359 nonresidents drew (100%). Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Harvest success in 2025 was 70.4%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 19 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 9 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 7 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 3 | – | – | – | 11 | 11 | 100% |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | 100% | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| 1 | 22 | 22 | 100% | 63 | 63 | 100% |
| 0 | 102 | 102 | 100% | 272 | 272 | 100% |
| All | 132 | 132 | 100% | 359 | 359 | 100% |
Residents: Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Nonresidents: Drawn out on choice 2: every first-choice applicant drew and licenses were left for later choices.
Year by year
Permits are the hunt's total; CPW doesn't split them by residency in this report.
| Year | Permits | Residents | Nonresidents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Pts needed | Applied | Drew | Pts needed | ||
| 2026 | 750 | 132 | 132 | Choice 2 | 359 | 359 | Choice 2 |
| 2025 | 630 | 128 | 128 | Choice 2 | 331 | 331 | Choice 2 |
| 2024 | 450 | 119 | 98 | 0 | 281 | 229 | 0 |
| 2023 | 450 | 104 | 80 | 0 | 308 | 239 | 0 |
| 2022 | 900 | 139 | 139 | Leftover | 296 | 296 | Leftover |
| 2021 | 900 | 138 | 138 | Choice 3 | 330 | 330 | Choice 3 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 587 | 413 | 70.4% |
Reading these numbers
Colorado ranks first-choice applicants by preference points (one point for each year you miss your first choice), with nonresidents capped at a share of each hunt's licenses. Hunts that took 10+ resident points the year before and have 5+ licenses also run a hybrid draw: up to 20% of licenses go at random to applicants with at least 5 points. For moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat, each miss after 3 preference points adds a weighted point that improves a random draw instead; for those species the point level shown is preference plus weighted points. Numbers are adult first-choice applicants; youth and landowner (LPP) applicants are reported separately by CPW and left out.
Sources
- 2026PostDrawRecapReport_DEER-26_05112026_1505(draw)
- 2025PostDrawRecapReport_DEER-25_05102025_1540(draw)
- 20252025 Deer Statewide Harvest Final(harvest)
- 20242024-Primary-DEER-Post-Draw-Report(draw)
- 20232023DeerDrawRecap(draw)
- 20222022DeerDrawRecap(draw)
- 20212021DeerDrawRecap(draw)
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Other hunts in unit 3
- Unit 3 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM003O1M)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O2R)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O3R)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003O4R)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W1R)
- Unit 3 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM003W2R)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, archery (hunt code AM003O1A)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, muzzleloader (hunt code AM003O1M)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003P5R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM003W2R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O1R)(elk)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O2R)(elk)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O3R)(elk)
- Unit 3 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM003O4R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF003O1M)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003E1R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003L1R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O1R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O2R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O3R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003O4R)(elk)
- Unit 3 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF003P5R)(elk)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 1 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM001O2R)
- Unit 1 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM001O3R)
- Unit 2 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM002O2R)
- Unit 2 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM002O3R)
- Unit 4 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE004P4R)
- Unit 4 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE004W1R)
- Unit 5 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE005P4R)
- Unit 5 either-sex deer, rifle (hunt code DE005W2R)