Colorado Pronghorn Mule Deer

Unit 112

Colorado Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer

Unit 112 lies in Lincoln County and covers about 296 square miles. Ground runs from 5,062 to 5,488 feet. CPW bounds it by U.S. 40 and Co. Primary 109 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 37%. No federal land falls inside it, so every acre is a permission question. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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5,062–5,488 ft

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 112

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 112

CPW's material on unit 112 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn live. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Lincoln County. It runs to about 296 square miles.

The lines of the unit: U.S. 40, Co. Primary 109 and Colo. 94

CPW has unit 112 bounded on the north by U.S. 40; on the east by Co. Primary 109; on the south by Colo. 94; on the west by Colo. 71. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Rock Point

Named high points inside the unit include Rock Point at 5,262 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

The herd this unit belongs to: A-6

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-6, and unit 112 is one piece of it. The rest of A-6 is unit 113, unit 114 and unit 115. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

What is published about unit 112, and what is not

The public datasets name one feature inside this unit, and no agency access property at all. That is the finding. Ground this size held privately is farmed and grazed rather than mapped, and the hunt starts as a conversation with a landowner rather than a route. Work out who owns the ground first, then ask. What the unit does have is 296 square miles of it, and the pronghorn living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. A grid sample of the unit reads 5,062 to 5,488 feet, averaging 5,269 — a sample rather than a survey, so read the ends as approximate. There is not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.

Unit 112 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,062–5,488 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,269 ft ; peaks can run higher.
295.5 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

Private / Other — 100%

Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rock Point (5,262 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Pronghorn in Unit 112

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 112 at 37% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from Rock Point

Take a position on Rock Point (5,262 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 78/45°F, Oct 65/32°F and Nov 53/21°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1 in. in Sep, 1 in. in Oct and 0.3 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CO 71 and CR 2W

CO 71 and US 40 / US 287 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

Where unit 112 sits inside A-6

Across A-6, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 45% in unit 114, 37% in unit 112 and 21% in unit 113. That puts unit 112 behind 1 of the 2 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 114 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rock Point as places to see from, and US 40;US 287 @ unit boundary, Hugo and Limon as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

296 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Hugo, about 10 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 112

Named routes and what they need

CO 71 — 12.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 2W — 11.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CH 109;CR 32 — 10.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 40;US 287 — 8.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 2T — 5.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 2G — 5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Hugo — 9.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Limon — 16.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Genoa — 17.8 mi · no services listed
Arriba — 24.5 mi · no services listed
Simla — 27.2 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan44° / 13° · 0.2" precip
Aug86° / 54° · 2.7" precip
Sep78° / 45° · 1" precip
Oct65° / 32° · 1" precip
Nov53° / 21° · 0.3" precip
Dec44° / 13° · 0.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Colorado has no general off-road retrieval allowance. Travel stays on designated routes, so plan to pack every animal out on your back or with stock. Check the forest or BLM travel map for the roads that are actually open in hunting season.

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

All manners of take37%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 112 at 37% — 227 animals taken by 609 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check CPW's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	49	102	48.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	180	372	48.4%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	7	26	26.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	232	545	42.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	34	68	50.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	0	8	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	17	24	70.8%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	7	8	87.5%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 112, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM112O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 545 applicants for 232 licences, 42.6% drawn, no preference points needed
AF112O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 372 applicants for 180 licences, 48.4% drawn, no preference points needed
AF112L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 102 applicants for 49 licences, 48% drawn, no preference points needed
AM112O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 68 applicants for 34 licences, 50% drawn, no preference points needed

No preference points were needed for the codes above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. There are 3 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 112

Unit 112 lies in Lincoln County and covers about 296 square miles. Ground runs from 5,062 to 5,488 feet. CPW bounds it by U.S. 40 and Co. Primary 109 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 50%. No federal land falls inside it, so every acre is a permission question. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 112

What CPW publishes for unit 112 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Lincoln County. It runs to about 296 square miles.

The lines of the unit: U.S. 40, Co. Primary 109 and Colo. 94

High ground inside the line: Rock Point

Named high points inside the unit include Rock Point at 5,262 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-46

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-46, and unit 112 is one piece of it. The rest of D-46 is unit 107, unit 113, unit 114, unit 115, unit 120 and unit 121. Read a neighbour in the same herd before you read the state average — the herd, not the unit line, is what the agency is steering.

What is published about unit 112, and what is not

The public datasets name one feature inside this unit, and no agency access property at all. That is the finding. Ground this size held privately is farmed and grazed rather than mapped, and the hunt starts as a conversation with a landowner rather than a route. Work out who owns the ground first, then ask. What the unit does have is 296 square miles of it, and the mule deer living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground.

Reading the land status

Unit 112 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,062–5,488 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,269 ft ; peaks can run higher.
295.5 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

Private / Other — 100%

Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Rock Point (5,262 ft)

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 112

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 112 at archery 26% and rifle 50%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Rock Point

Take a position on Rock Point (5,262 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CO 71 and CR 2W

Where unit 112 sits inside D-46

Across D-46, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 41% in unit 112, 40% in unit 107, 40% in unit 114, 37% in unit 120 and 25% in unit 113. Unit 112 is the best of them on that measure, which usually means fewer tags rather than more animals. Success inside one herd moves with tag numbers and season length as much as with animals, so read the licence count alongside it.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Rock Point as places to see from, and US 40;US 287 @ unit boundary, Hugo and Limon as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

296 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Hugo, about 10 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 112

Named routes and what they need

CO 71 — 12.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 2W — 11.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CH 109;CR 32 — 10.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 40;US 287 — 8.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 2T — 5.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 2G — 5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Hugo — 9.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Limon — 16.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Genoa — 17.8 mi · no services listed
Arriba — 24.5 mi · no services listed
Simla — 27.2 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan44° / 13° · 0.2" precip
Aug86° / 54° · 2.7" precip
Sep78° / 45° · 1" precip
Oct65° / 32° · 1" precip
Nov53° / 21° · 0.3" precip
Dec44° / 13° · 0.3" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

All manners of take41%

Archery26%

Rifle50%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 112 at 41% — 58 animals taken by 142 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Archery — 26% success, 11 taken by 43 hunters
Rifle — 50% success, 39 taken by 78 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	39	60	65.0%	—
Archery — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	10	11	90.9%	—
Archery — 4th Season either sex (resident)	1	9	11.1%	—
Archery — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 4th Season doe only (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	2	16	12.5%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	16	40	40.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	4	5	80.0%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for mule deer in unit 112, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DE112O2A — Archery, 2nd Season, Either Sex, resident: 60 applicants for 39 licences, 65% drawn, no preference points needed
DM112O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 40 applicants for 16 licences, 40% drawn, no preference points needed
DF112O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 16 applicants for 2 licences, 12.5% drawn, no preference points needed
DE112O2A — Archery, 2nd Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 11 applicants for 10 licences, 90.9% drawn, no preference points needed

No preference points were needed for the codes above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. There are 2 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data — plan on dispersed camping and check the land status first.

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Road Conditions

CO 71, CR 2W and CH 109 / CR 32 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 47 mi paved, 29 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,062–5,488 ft, averaging 5,269. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 78/45°F, 1 in.; Oct 65/32°F, 1 in.; Nov 53/21°F, 0.3 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Hugo (10 mi), Limon (17 mi), Genoa (18 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 112?

Unit 112 lies in Lincoln County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by U.S. 40; on the east by Co. Primary 109; on the south by Colo. 94; on the west by Colo. 71. It covers about 296 square miles.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 112?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 112 at 37% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 112 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 112 are at Hugo, about 10 miles from the unit's centre, with Limon at about 17 miles. No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data, so plan on dispersed camping.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 112?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 112 at 41% across all manners of take, and archery 26% and rifle 50% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-23.

Colorado Big Game Hunting Brochure — Game Management Unit (GMU) Descriptions (pp. 79-80-81-82) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Data analysis unit (DAU) the unit belongs to · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 112, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
CPW CPWAdminData feature service — GMU and sheep/goat unit boundaries — Colorado Parks and Wildlife GIS Unit · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 112, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22