Unit 79 buck deer, rifle
- Hunt code
- DM079O3R
- Unit
- 79
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 4 points: the report shows 30 of 53 drew at that level.
In 2026, nonresidents needed 9 points: the report shows 9 of 10 drew at that level.
Harvest success in 2025 was 88.2%.
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 | |
| 16 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 15 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 13 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| 9 | – | – | – | 10 | 9 | 90% |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 24 | 0 | 0% |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 8 | 0 | 0% |
| 5 | 21 | 21 | 100% | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 4 | 53 | 30 | 57% | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 3 | 47 | 0 | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 2 | 53 | 0 | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| 1 | 55 | 0 | 0% | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 45 | 0 | 0% | 17 | 0 | 0% |
| All | 283 | 60 | 21% | 117 | 22 | 19% |
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 | 110 | 283 | 60 | 4 | 117 | 22 | 9 |
| 2025 | 110 | 298 | 62 | 4 | 112 | 22 | 8 |
| 2024 | 100 | 275 | 57 | 3 | 94 | 20 | 8 |
| 2023 | 100 | 279 | 49 | 3 | 142 | 28 | 7 |
| 2022 | 100 | 264 | 49 | 3 | 242 | 28 | 6 |
| 2021 | 120 | 241 | 61 | 2 | 107 | 31 | 3 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | 90 | 88.2% |
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 79
- Unit 79 buck deer, archery (hunt code DM079O1A)
- Unit 79 buck deer, muzzleloader (hunt code DM079O1M)
- Unit 79 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM079O2R)
- Unit 79 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM079O4R)
- Unit 79 buck pronghorn, archery (hunt code AM079O1A)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 buck pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AM079O1R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 bull elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EM079O1M)(elk)
- Unit 79 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM079O1R)(elk)
- Unit 79 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM079O2R)(elk)
- Unit 79 bull elk, rifle (hunt code EM079O3R)(elk)
- Unit 79 bull moose, weapon code X (hunt code MM079O1X)(moose)
- Unit 79 cow elk, muzzleloader (hunt code EF079O1M)(elk)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O1R)(elk)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O2R)(elk)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O3R)(elk)
- Unit 79 cow elk, rifle (hunt code EF079O4R)(elk)
- Unit 79 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF079P5R)
- Unit 79 doe pronghorn, rifle (hunt code AF079P5R)(pronghorn)
- Unit 79 either-sex elk, archery (hunt code EE079V1A)(elk)
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 76 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM076O2R)
- Unit 76 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM076O3R)
- Unit 77 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF077O2R)
- Unit 77 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF077O3R)
- Unit 80 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF080O2R)
- Unit 80 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF080O3R)
- Unit 82 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM082E1R)
- Unit 82 buck deer, rifle (hunt code DM082O2R)