Unit 97 buck deer, rifle
- Hunt code
- DM097O1R
- Unit
- 97
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Draw years
- 2021–2026
In 2026, residents needed 0 points: the report shows 3 of 14 drew at that level.
No nonresidents applied in 2026.
Harvest success in 2025 was 59.1%.
2026 draw by point level
First-choice applicants at each point level, and how many of them drew.
| Points | Residents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied | Drew | Rate | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 100% |
| 0 | 14 | 3 | 21% |
| All | 27 | 16 | 59% |
Nonresidents: None drawn.
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 | 25 | 27 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2025 | 25 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 25 | 24 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 25 | 36 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None Drawn |
| 2021 | 20 | 43 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | 13 | 59.1% |
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 97
Units listed next to it
In CPW's unit order, which often but not always means nearby.
- Unit 95 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF095L1R)
- Unit 95 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF095O1R)
- Unit 96 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF096L1R)
- Unit 96 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF096O1R)
- Unit 98 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF098L1R)
- Unit 98 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF098O1R)
- Unit 99 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF099L1R)
- Unit 99 doe deer, rifle (hunt code DF099O1R)