Unit 114
Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit 114 lies in Lincoln, Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties and covers about 557 square miles. Ground runs from 4,709 to 5,364 feet. CPW bounds it by Flagler-Wildhorse Rd. (CRs 5 and GG [Cheyenne Co. line] among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 41%. 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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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 114
Unit 114 lies in Lincoln, Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties and covers about 557 square miles. Ground runs from 4,709 to 5,364 feet. CPW bounds it by Flagler-Wildhorse Rd. (CRs 5 and GG [Cheyenne Co. line] among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 41%. 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 114
CPW draws an exact line around unit 114 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Lincoln, Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties. It runs to about 557 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Flagler-Wildhorse Rd. (CRs 5, GG [Cheyenne Co. line] and U.S. 40
CPW has unit 114 bounded on the north by I-70; on the east by Flagler-Wildhorse Rd. (CRs 5, G, 6, A [Kit Carson Co. line], GG [Cheyenne Co. line] & 9); on S a W by U.S. 40. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.
Water: Willow Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 319 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes and 199 stock tanks. Named sources include Willow Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
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 114 is one piece of it. The rest of D-46 is unit 107, unit 112, unit 113, unit 115, unit 120 and unit 121. That matters twice over: the population objective and the licence numbers are set for the whole area, and the animals move across unit lines inside it without noticing them.
What is published about unit 114, 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 557 square miles of it, and the mule deer living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.
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 4,709 to 5,364 feet, averaging 5,086 — 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 114 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,709–5,364 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,086 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 557.3 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
- 199 tanks
- 319 stream segments
- 2 lakes
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
Holding ground: Willow Spring
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 114
Mule Deer Success Rates
CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 114 at 40% — 28 animals taken by 69 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 — 0% success, 0 taken by 5 hunters
- Rifle — 41% success, 26 taken by 62 hunters
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.
Mule Deer Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident) | 17 | 29 | 58.6% | — |
| Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident) | 38 | 71 | 53.5% | — |
| Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident) | 11 | 20 | 55.0% | — |
Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineCPW's 2026 draw recap for mule deer in unit 114, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- DM114O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 71 applicants for 38 licences, 53.5% drawn, no preference points needed
- DF114O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 29 applicants for 17 licences, 58.6% drawn, no preference points needed
- DM114O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 20 applicants for 11 licences, 55% 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. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.
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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 Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 114, 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