Colorado Pronghorn Mule Deer

Unit 119 (Pueblo / El Paso County Plains)

Colorado Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer

Unit 119 lies in El Paso and Lincoln counties and covers about 588 square miles. Ground runs from 4,726 to 6,041 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 94 and Colo. 71 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 33%. 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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4,726–6,041 ft

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 119

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 119

CPW's material on unit 119 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 El Paso and Lincoln counties. It runs to about 588 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 94, Colo. 71 and Crowley- Lincoln

CPW has unit 119 bounded on the north by Colo. 94; on the east by Colo. 71; on the south by Crowley- Lincoln and El Paso-Pueblo Co. lines; on the west by Yoder Rd., Shear Rd. and Boone Rd. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Walker Point

Named high points inside the unit include Walker Point at 4,945 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.

Holding ground: Pats Draw, Seldom Ridge Draw and Ninemile Flats

Below them sit Pats Draw at 5,210 feet, Seldom Ridge Draw at 5,136 feet, Ninemile Flats at 5,001 feet and Peace Valley at 4,926 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Public ground to start from: Brett Gray Ranch STL and Punkin Center STL

CPW lists Brett Gray Ranch STL and Punkin Center STL inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 0% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Cockleburr Springs

The water inside the unit line comes to 11 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes and 17 stock tanks. Named sources include Cockleburr Springs. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: A-8

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-8, and unit 119 is one piece of it. The rest of A-8 is unit 110, unit 111, unit 118, unit 123 and unit 124. 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.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 85% and BLM 15%, 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 4,726 to 6,041 feet, averaging 5,392 — 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 119 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

4,726–6,041 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,392 ft ; peaks can run higher.
587.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

17 tanks
11 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

Glass from: Walker Point (4,945 ft)

Holding ground: Pats Draw (5,210 ft), Ninemile Flats (5,001 ft), Brett Gray Ranch STL, Punkin Center STL, Cockleburr Springs

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

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How to Hunt Pronghorn in Unit 119

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 119 at 33% 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 Walker Point

Take a position on Walker Point (4,945 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, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 11 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 80/47°F, Oct 66/34°F and Nov 53/23°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, 0.8 in. in Oct and 0.3 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CO 94 and CO 71

CO 94 and CO 71 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 119 sits inside A-8

Across A-8, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 54% in unit 124, 53% in unit 111, 43% in unit 118, 43% in unit 123 and 35% in unit 110. Unit 119 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 124 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 Walker Point as places to see from, and Pats Draw, Ninemile Flats, Brett Gray Ranch STL and Punkin Center STL 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

588 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 Calhan, about 31 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. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit 119

Named routes and what they need

CO 94 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 71 — 11.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 11 — 10.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Boone Road — 7.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Shear Road — 7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Truckton Road — 5.9 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

Calhan — 30.5 mi · no services listed
Ramah — 32.3 mi · no services listed
Simla — 32.4 mi · no services listed
Ordway — 34 mi · fuel, groceries
Boone — 34.4 mi · groceries

Season weather and signal

Jan45° / 15° · 0.2" precip
Aug86° / 56° · 2.4" precip
Sep80° / 47° · 1" precip
Oct66° / 34° · 0.8" precip
Nov53° / 23° · 0.3" precip
Dec44° / 15° · 0.2" 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 take33%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 119 at 33% — 216 animals taken by 656 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)	127	526	24.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	2	9	22.2%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	110	533	20.6%	1
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	13	53	24.5%	1

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 119, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 533 applicants for 110 licences, 20.6% drawn, 1 preference point needed
AF119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 526 applicants for 127 licences, 24.1% drawn, no preference points needed
AM119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 53 applicants for 13 licences, 24.5% drawn, 1 preference point needed
AF119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, nonresident: 9 applicants for 2 licences, 22.2% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 119

Unit 119 lies in El Paso and Lincoln counties and covers about 588 square miles. Ground runs from 4,726 to 6,041 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 94 and Colo. 71 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 56%. 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 119

CPW's material on unit 119 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer 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 El Paso and Lincoln counties. It runs to about 588 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 94, Colo. 71 and Crowley- Lincoln

CPW has unit 119 bounded on the north by Colo. 94; on the east by Colo. 71; on the south by Crowley- Lincoln and El Paso-Pueblo Co. lines; on the west by Yoder Rd., Shear Rd. and Boone Rd. 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.

High ground inside the line: Walker Point

Named high points inside the unit include Walker Point at 4,945 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.

Holding ground: Pats Draw, Seldom Ridge Draw and Ninemile Flats

Below them sit Pats Draw at 5,210 feet, Seldom Ridge Draw at 5,136 feet, Ninemile Flats at 5,001 feet and Peace Valley at 4,926 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Brett Gray Ranch STL and Punkin Center STL

Water: Cockleburr Springs

The herd this unit belongs to: D-48

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-48, and unit 119 is one piece of it. The rest of D-48 is unit 110, unit 111, unit 118, unit 123 and unit 124. 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.

Reading the land status

Unit 119 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

4,726–6,041 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,392 ft ; peaks can run higher.
587.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

17 tanks
11 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

Glass from: Walker Point (4,945 ft)

Holding ground: Pats Draw (5,210 ft), Ninemile Flats (5,001 ft), Brett Gray Ranch STL, Punkin Center STL, Cockleburr Springs

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 119

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 119 at archery 6% and rifle 56%. 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 Walker Point

Take a position on Walker Point (4,945 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, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 11 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CO 94 and CO 71

Where unit 119 sits inside D-48

Across D-48, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 43% in unit 110, 41% in unit 123, 38% in unit 111, 38% in unit 118 and 37% in unit 124. Unit 119 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 110 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 Walker Point as places to see from, and Pats Draw, Ninemile Flats, Brett Gray Ranch STL and Punkin Center STL 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

588 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 Calhan, about 31 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 119

Named routes and what they need

CO 94 — 13.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 71 — 11.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 11 — 10.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Boone Road — 7.9 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Shear Road — 7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Truckton Road — 5.9 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

Calhan — 30.5 mi · no services listed
Ramah — 32.3 mi · no services listed
Simla — 32.4 mi · no services listed
Ordway — 34 mi · fuel, groceries
Boone — 34.4 mi · groceries

Season weather and signal

Jan45° / 15° · 0.2" precip
Aug86° / 56° · 2.4" precip
Sep80° / 47° · 1" precip
Oct66° / 34° · 0.8" precip
Nov53° / 23° · 0.3" precip
Dec44° / 15° · 0.2" 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 take31%

Archery6%

Rifle56%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 119 at 31% — 50 animals taken by 159 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 — 6% success, 4 taken by 64 hunters
Rifle — 56% success, 46 taken by 82 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	17	37	45.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	31	72	43.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	3	3	100.0%	—

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 119, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 72 applicants for 31 licences, 43.1% drawn, no preference points needed
DF119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 37 applicants for 17 licences, 45.9% drawn, no preference points needed
DM119O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 3 applicants for 3 licences, 100% 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.

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 94, CO 71 and County Road 11 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 44 mi paved, 46 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

4,726–6,041 ft, averaging 5,392. 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 80/47°F, 1 in.; Oct 66/34°F, 0.8 in.; Nov 53/23°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

Calhan (31 mi), Ramah (32 mi), Simla (32 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 119?

Unit 119 lies in El Paso and Lincoln counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by Colo. 94; on the east by Colo. 71; on the south by Crowley- Lincoln and El Paso-Pueblo Co. lines; on the west by Yoder Rd., Shear Rd. and Boone Rd. It covers about 588 square miles.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 119?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 119 at 33% 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 119 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 119 are at Calhan, about 31 miles from the unit's centre, with Ramah at about 32 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 119?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 119 at 31% across all manners of take, and archery 6% and rifle 56% 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 119, 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 119, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22