Colorado Mule Deer Moose Elk

Unit 19

Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Moose, Elk

Unit 19 lies in Larimer County. CPW bounds it by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.) and Harmony Rd among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 36%. Federal land covers about 61% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 19

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 19

CPW's material on unit 19 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer live. 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 Larimer County.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.), Harmony Rd and CR 19

CPW has unit 19 bounded on the north by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.); on the east by I-25; on the south by Harmony Rd., CRs 19, 38E, 27 & 44H (Buckhorn Rd.), Elk Creek-Pennock Creek divide and RMNP boundary; on the west by Larimer-Jackson Co. line. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Comanche Peak, Crown Point and Flat Top Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Comanche Peak at 12,681 feet, Crown Point at 11,439 feet, Flat Top Mountain at 11,329 feet, Signal Mountain at 11,243 feet and Bald Mountain at 10,820 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Soule Park, Beaver Park and Salt Cabin Park

Below them sit Soule Park at 9,016 feet, Beaver Park at 8,953 feet, Salt Cabin Park at 8,237 feet, Poverty Flats at 8,068 feet and Jacks Gulch at 7,957 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: Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA and Watson Lake SWA

CPW lists Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA and Watson Lake SWA 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 61% of the unit on top of those.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-4

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-4, and unit 19 is one piece of it. The rest of D-4 is unit 7, unit 8, unit 9 and unit 191. 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 19 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Comanche Peak (12,681 ft), Crown Point (11,439 ft), Flat Top Mountain (11,329 ft), Signal Mountain (11,243 ft)

Holding ground: Trap Park (10,404 ft), Corral Park (10,137 ft), Peterson Park (9,792 ft), Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA

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 19

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 19 at archery 12% and rifle 36%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Sleeping Elephant Mountain, White Rock and Quigley Mountain

Take a position on one of Sleeping Elephant Mountain (9,096 ft), White Rock (8,757 ft), Quigley Mountain (8,567 ft) and Mount Ethel (8,444 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. 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.

Getting past the roads

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter. 5 mapped public entry points fall inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 19 sits inside D-4

Across D-4, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 42% in unit 9, 41% in unit 191, 28% in unit 19, 17% in unit 8 and 15% in unit 7. That puts unit 19 behind 2 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 9 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: Colo. 14, I-25 and CRs 19

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: Colo. 14, I-25 and CRs 19. 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 Comanche Peak, Crown Point, Flat Top Mountain and Signal Mountain as places to see from, and Trap Park, Corral Park, Peterson Park and Bliss SWA 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

423 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. 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.

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.

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 take28%

Archery12%

Rifle36%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 19 at 28% — 281 animals taken by 1,015 hunters. That is a lot of hunters in one unit, and the percentage is what it looks like after all of them have been through it.

Archery — 12% success, 24 taken by 195 hunters
Rifle — 36% success, 247 taken by 687 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 — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	424	1,192	35.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	38	68	55.9%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	487	1,174	41.5%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	54	110	49.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	200	916	21.8%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	30	70	42.9%	—

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

DM019O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, resident: 1,192 applicants for 424 licences, 35.6% drawn, no preference points needed
DM019O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, resident: 1,174 applicants for 487 licences, 41.5% drawn, no preference points needed
DM019O4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Buck Only, resident: 916 applicants for 200 licences, 21.8% drawn, no preference points needed
DM019O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 110 applicants for 54 licences, 49.1% 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.

Moose Hunting in Unit 19

Unit 19 lies in Larimer County. CPW bounds it by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.) and Harmony Rd among others. CPW's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 60%. Federal land covers about 61% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 19

What CPW publishes for unit 19 is a boundary, not a Shiras moose 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 Larimer County.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.), Harmony Rd and CR 19

CPW has unit 19 bounded on the north by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.); on the east by I-25; on the south by Harmony Rd., CRs 19, 38E, 27 & 44H (Buckhorn Rd.), Elk Creek-Pennock Creek divide and RMNP boundary; on the west by Larimer-Jackson Co. line. 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: Mummy Range, West White Pine Mountain and East White Pine Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Mummy Range at 10,623 feet, West White Pine Mountain at 10,281 feet, East White Pine Mountain at 10,236 feet, Sleeping Elephant Mountain at 9,096 feet and White Rock at 8,757 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.

Holding ground: Kyle Gulch, Sheep Gulch and Pendergrass Flats

Below them sit Kyle Gulch at 7,828 feet, Sheep Gulch at 7,639 feet, Pendergrass Flats at 7,636 feet, High Park at 7,599 feet and Black Hollow at 7,459 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA and Watson Lake SWA

The herd this unit belongs to: M-2

CPW does not manage Shiras moose unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit M-2, and unit 19 is one piece of it. The rest of M-2 is unit 7, unit 8 and unit 191. 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.

Unit 19 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Comanche Peak (12,681 ft), Crown Point (11,439 ft), Flat Top Mountain (11,329 ft), Signal Mountain (11,243 ft)

Holding ground: Trap Park (10,404 ft), Corral Park (10,137 ft), Peterson Park (9,792 ft), Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA

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 Shiras Moose in Unit 19

CPW's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 19 at 60% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Glassing from Buckhorn Mountain, Buck Ridge and Mount McConnel

Take a position on one of Buckhorn Mountain (8,311 ft), Buck Ridge (8,296 ft), Mount McConnel (7,996 ft) and Christ Mountain (7,889 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, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Getting past the roads

Where unit 19 sits inside M-2

Across M-2, CPW's 2023 Shiras moose success runs 100% in unit 191, 88% in unit 8, 73% in unit 7 and 60% in unit 19. Unit 19 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 191 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: Colo. 14, I-25 and CRs 19

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Comanche Peak, Crown Point, Flat Top Mountain and Signal Mountain as places to see from, and Trap Park, Corral Park, Peterson Park and Bliss SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

423 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.

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.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

All manners of take60%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 19 at 60% — 15 animals taken by 25 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.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	13	269	4.8%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	10	10	100.0%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (resident)	8	818	1.0%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (resident)	6	6	100.0%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

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 Shiras moose in unit 19, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

MM019O1X — Any Legal Method, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 818 applicants for 8 licences, 1% drawn, 3 preference points needed
MF019O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 269 applicants for 13 licences, 4.8% drawn, 3 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.

Elk Hunting in Unit 19

Unit 19 lies in Larimer County. CPW bounds it by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.) and Harmony Rd among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 12%. Federal land covers about 61% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Elk in Unit 19

What CPW publishes for unit 19 is a boundary, not a elk 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 Larimer County.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.), Harmony Rd and CR 19

High ground inside the line: Quigley Mountain, Mount Ethel and Buckhorn Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Quigley Mountain at 8,567 feet, Mount Ethel at 8,444 feet, Buckhorn Mountain at 8,311 feet, Buck Ridge at 8,296 feet and Mount McConnel at 7,996 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Paradise Park, Crown Point Gulch and Mineral Springs Gulch

Below them sit Paradise Park at 7,351 feet, Crown Point Gulch at 7,274 feet, Mineral Springs Gulch at 7,203 feet, Harlan Gulch at 7,162 feet and Dadd Gulch at 7,041 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA and Watson Lake SWA

The herd this unit belongs to: E-4

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-4, and unit 19 is one piece of it. The rest of E-4 is unit 7, unit 8, unit 9 and unit 191. 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 19 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Comanche Peak (12,681 ft), Crown Point (11,439 ft), Flat Top Mountain (11,329 ft), Signal Mountain (11,243 ft)

Holding ground: Trap Park (10,404 ft), Corral Park (10,137 ft), Peterson Park (9,792 ft), Bliss SWA, Poudre River SWA

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 Elk in Unit 19

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 19 at archery 12%, muzzleloader 10% and rifle 10%. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Profile Rock, Bear Mountain and Horsetooth Mountain

Take a position on one of Profile Rock (7,787 ft), Bear Mountain (7,589 ft), Horsetooth Mountain (7,247 ft) and Arthurs Rock (6,753 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Getting past the roads

Where unit 19 sits inside E-4

Across E-4, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 31% in unit 9, 11% in unit 191, 10% in unit 8, 10% in unit 19 and 9% in unit 7. That puts unit 19 behind 2 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 9 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: Colo. 14, I-25 and CRs 19

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

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.

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.

Elk: 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. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

All manners of take10%

Archery12%

Muzzleloader10%

Rifle10%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 19 at 10% — 100 animals taken by 988 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 — 12% success, 29 taken by 247 hunters
Muzzleloader — 10% success, 12 taken by 116 hunters
Rifle — 10% success, 60 taken by 625 hunters

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	47	105	44.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	43	202	21.3%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	1	7	14.3%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	61	91	67.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	2	4	50.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (resident)	76	284	26.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	26	73	35.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (resident)	153	340	45.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (nonresident)	25	55	45.5%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	22	155	14.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	1	11	9.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	16	60	26.7%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	4	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (resident)	124	284	43.7%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (nonresident)	31	38	81.6%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (resident)	48	141	34.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (nonresident)	7	23	30.4%	—

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 elk in unit 19, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EM019O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Bull Only, resident: 340 applicants for 153 licences, 45% drawn, no preference points needed
EM019O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 284 applicants for 76 licences, 26.8% drawn, no preference points needed
EM019O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Bull Only, resident: 284 applicants for 124 licences, 43.7% drawn, no preference points needed
EF019O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Cow Only, resident: 202 applicants for 43 licences, 21.3% 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 14 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 19?

Unit 19 lies in Larimer County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by Colo. 14 (Poudre Canyon Rd.); on the east by I-25; on the south by Harmony Rd., CRs 19, 38E, 27 & 44H (Buckhorn Rd.), Elk Creek-Pennock Creek divide and RMNP boundary; on the west by Larimer-Jackson Co. line.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 19?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 19 at 28% across all manners of take, and archery 12% and rifle 36% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 19?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 19 at 60% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the elk success rate in unit 19?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 19 at 10% across all manners of take, and archery 12%, muzzleloader 10% and rifle 10% 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 Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 19, 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 Moose Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for Shiras moose in unit 19, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Elk Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for elk in unit 19, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22