Unit 72 buck deer, rifle
- Hunt code
- DM072P3R
- Unit
- 72
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, 64 of 64 residents drew (100%). CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
In 2026, 21 of 21 nonresidents drew (100%). CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
Harvest success in 2025 was 64.8%.
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 | |
| 4 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 1 | 11 | 11 | 100% | 9 | 9 | 100% |
| 0 | 50 | 50 | 100% | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| All | 64 | 64 | 100% | 21 | 21 | 100% |
Residents: CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
Nonresidents: CPW listed this hunt as “Leftover”.
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 | 220 | 64 | 64 | Leftover | 21 | 21 | Leftover |
| 2025 | 140 | 63 | 63 | Choice 2 | 25 | 25 | Choice 2 |
| 2024 | 120 | 75 | 72 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| 2023 | 120 | 84 | 72 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 0 |
| 2022 | 120 | 68 | 68 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| 2021 | 95 | 57 | 51 | 0 | 23 | 20 | 0 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | 68 | 64.8% |
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 72
- Unit 72 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM072O1A)
- Unit 72 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM072O1M)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O2R)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O3R)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072O4R)
- Unit 72 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM072P2R)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O2R)(elk)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O3R)(elk)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072O4R)(elk)
- Unit 72 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF072P5R)(elk)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P2R)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P3R)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P4R)
- Unit 72 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF072P5R)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 70 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF070P2R)
- Unit 70 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF070P3R)
- Unit 71 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF071P2R)
- Unit 71 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF071P3R)
- Unit 74 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM074E1R)
- Unit 74 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM074O2R)
- Unit 75 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF075O2R)
- Unit 75 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF075O3R)