Colorado Pronghorn Mule Deer

Unit 141

Colorado Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer

Unit 141 lies in Las Animas County. CPW bounds it by Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd and Purgatoire River among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 59%. 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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5,116–5,653 ft

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 141

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 141

CPW's material on unit 141 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 Las Animas County.

The lines of the unit: Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd, Purgatoire River and San Francisco Creek

CPW has unit 141 bounded on the north by W and S boundaries of U.S. Army Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd.; on the east by Purgatoire River and San Francisco Creek; on the south by U.S. 160; on the west by U.S. 350. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Mooney Hills

Named high points inside the unit include Mooney Hills at 5,801 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: Miller Canyon, Jack Canyon and Hunt Canyon

Below them sit Miller Canyon at 5,177 feet, Jack Canyon at 4,958 feet and Hunt Canyon at 4,927 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

The herd this unit belongs to: A-7

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-7, and unit 141 is one piece of it. The rest of A-7 is unit 128, unit 129, unit 133, unit 134, unit 135, unit 140, unit 142 and unit 147. 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.

Unit 141 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,116–5,653 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,423 ft ; peaks can run higher.
239.6 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

7 tanks
8 stream segments
4 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: Mooney Hills (5,801 ft)

Holding ground: Miller Canyon (5,177 ft), Jack Canyon (4,958 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 141

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 141 at 59% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. 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 Mooney Hills

Take a position on Mooney Hills (5,801 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. 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.

Where unit 141 sits inside A-7

Across A-7, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 75% in unit 140, 59% in unit 129, 59% in unit 141, 53% in unit 134 and 50% in unit 142. That puts unit 141 behind 1 of the 8 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 140 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: U.S. 160 and U.S. 350

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: U.S. 160 and U.S. 350. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mooney Hills as places to see from, and Miller Canyon and Jack Canyon 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

238 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. 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.

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 141

Named routes and what they need

CR 48 — 15.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 350 — 12 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 54 — 9.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 32.0 — 4.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 160 — 3.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 127.5 — 3.6 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

Trinidad — 21.5 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Starkville — 24.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Cokedale — 28.2 mi · no services listed
Aguilar — 28.9 mi · no services listed
Raton — 31.9 mi · groceries

Season weather and signal

Jan48° / 19° · 0.4" precip
Aug87° / 57° · 2.1" precip
Sep80° / 50° · 1.2" precip
Oct69° / 37° · 1.1" precip
Nov57° / 27° · 0.6" precip
Dec48° / 19° · 0.5" 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 take59%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 141 at 59% — 51 animals taken by 88 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)	2	8	25.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	14	21	66.7%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	16	16	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 pronghorn in unit 141, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM141P1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 21 applicants for 14 licences, 66.7% drawn, no preference points needed
AM141P1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 16 applicants for 16 licences, 100% drawn, no preference points needed
AF141P1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 8 applicants for 2 licences, 25% 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 141

Unit 141 lies in Las Animas County. CPW bounds it by Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd and Purgatoire River among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 78%. 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 141

What CPW publishes for unit 141 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 Las Animas County.

The lines of the unit: Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd, Purgatoire River and San Francisco Creek

CPW has unit 141 bounded on the north by W and S boundaries of U.S. Army Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd.; on the east by Purgatoire River and San Francisco Creek; on the south by U.S. 160; on the west by U.S. 350. 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: Mooney Hills

Named high points inside the unit include Mooney Hills at 5,801 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: Miller Canyon, Jack Canyon and Hunt Canyon

Below them sit Miller Canyon at 5,177 feet, Jack Canyon at 4,958 feet and Hunt Canyon at 4,927 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-45

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-45, and unit 141 is one piece of it. The rest of D-45 is unit 128, unit 133, unit 134, unit 135, unit 136, unit 142 and unit 147. 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.

Unit 141 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,116–5,653 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,423 ft ; peaks can run higher.
239.6 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

7 tanks
8 stream segments
4 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: Mooney Hills (5,801 ft)

Holding ground: Miller Canyon (5,177 ft), Jack Canyon (4,958 ft)

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 Mule Deer in Unit 141

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 141 at rifle 78%. 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 Mooney Hills

Take a position on Mooney Hills (5,801 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Where unit 141 sits inside D-45

Across D-45, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 64% in unit 142, 63% in unit 141, 53% in unit 134, 48% in unit 147 and 47% in unit 136. That puts unit 141 behind 1 of the 7 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 142 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: U.S. 160 and U.S. 350

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: U.S. 160 and U.S. 350. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; a unit you can only enter from its rim rewards whoever is willing to leave the truck at the rim.

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

238 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. 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 141

Named routes and what they need

CR 48 — 15.7 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 350 — 12 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 54 — 9.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 32.0 — 4.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 160 — 3.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 127.5 — 3.6 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

Trinidad — 21.5 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Starkville — 24.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Cokedale — 28.2 mi · no services listed
Aguilar — 28.9 mi · no services listed
Raton — 31.9 mi · groceries

Season weather and signal

Jan48° / 19° · 0.4" precip
Aug87° / 57° · 2.1" precip
Sep80° / 50° · 1.2" precip
Oct69° / 37° · 1.1" precip
Nov57° / 27° · 0.6" precip
Dec48° / 19° · 0.5" 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 take63%

Rifle78%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 141 at 63% — 22 animals taken by 35 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.

Rifle — 78% success, 18 taken by 23 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	3	3	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	1	3	33.3%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	6	14	42.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	6	33.3%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	7	19	36.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	5	5	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 141, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM141O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 19 applicants for 7 licences, 36.8% drawn, no preference points needed
DM141L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 14 applicants for 6 licences, 42.9% drawn, no preference points needed
DM141L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 6 applicants for 2 licences, 33.3% drawn, no preference points needed
DM141O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 5 applicants for 5 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. 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

Dispersed BLM camping. Basic services in San Luis.

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Road Conditions

Paved county roads and BLM gravel tracks. Generally 2WD accessible.

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Terrain Difficulty

Easy. Open sage and grassland at 4,927-5,801 feet.

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Hunting Pressure

Low to moderate given good tag availability.

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Weather

Warm in early season (60-80F). Wind constant. Cool nights from late September.

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Cell Service

Fair near San Luis and Trinidad. Poor on remote BLM land.

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Nearest Town

San Luis or Trinidad

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 141?

Unit 141 lies in Las Animas County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by W and S boundaries of U.S. Army Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and Colo. Interstate Gas Pipeline Rd.; on the east by Purgatoire River and San Francisco Creek; on the south by U.S. 160; on the west by U.S. 350.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 141?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 141 at 59% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 141?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 141 at 63% across all manners of take, and rifle 78% 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 141, 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 141, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22