Hunt code D-E-109-O2-R: 2026 Colorado either-sex deer, 2nd rifle

D-E-109-O2-R (printed on a license as DE109O2R) is a limited either-sex deer rifle license for the 2nd rifle season, October 24, 2026 to November 3, 2026, valid in unit 109.

Read left to right: D is deer, E is either-sex, 109 is the hunt area number (it names the license, and is not always a unit number), O2 is the 2nd rifle season and R is rifle. How to read any hunt code.

DE109O2R season dates and units

• Dates: October 24, 2026 to November 3, 2026
• Valid in: unit 109
• How it is issued: limited: issued through the draw, with any left over sold afterwards

Read from the 2026 Colorado Big Game brochure. Your license and the current brochure are the authority: check both with Colorado Parks and Wildlife before you hunt.

How many preference points did DE109O2R take in the 2026 draw?

In Colorado's 2026 primary draw, all 2 resident and 3 nonresident first-choice applicants for DE109O2R drew a license, so no preference points were needed, and 22 of its 60 licenses were left over after the draw.

Licenses left after the draws are sold first come, first served on CPW's leftover and reissued license list, and they do not use or earn preference points.

"Drew out at" is CPW's own figure: the preference point level of the last license the draw gave that group. "2nd+ choice" means every first-choice applicant drew and the rest went to applicants who listed it lower; "leftover" means licenses were still left after the draw. Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report; 2025 Primary DEER Post Draw Report; 2024 Primary DEER Post Draw Report.

What was DE109O2R's hunter success in 2025?

CPW's 2025 harvest survey estimates that 56 hunters held DE109O2R and took 18 deer (7 bucks, 7 does, 4 fawns): 32.1% success, over 203 days in the field.

CPW's estimates for this license alone (2025 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates), the first year CPW reports by hunt code rather than by unit.

DE109O2R: deer hunters in unit 109, 2024 and 2023

CPW's 2024 survey has no 2nd rifle deer estimate for unit 109, so these figures are every rifle deer season in the unit added together. Estimates from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's 2024 and 2023 harvest surveys, not counts: CPW rounds each figure, so the parts can differ from a total by one or two, and success here (animals taken divided by hunters, as on the unit pages) can sit a point from the percentage CPW prints. How to read these tables.

What the numbers say about DE109O2R

• Unit 109 had 357 deer hunters in the rifle seasons together in 2024, who took 106 deer: 30% success. In 2023 it was 28% from 350 hunters, so success is up 2 points on the year before and hunter numbers went from 350 to 357.
• Across all 186 Colorado units with an estimate, deer hunters in the rifle seasons together ran at 49% in 2024 (28,524 deer from 58,313 hunters). Unit 109 was 19 points below it, and held 0.6% of the state's hunters for those seasons.
• This is an either-sex license. Of the 106 deer taken, 67 were bucks, 35 were does and 5 were fawns. The 2023 and 2024 unit surveys count animals by sex but not hunters by license; CPW's 2025 report gives this license's own success, above.
• That is 34 hunters for every 100 square miles of the unit, public and private land together, and 3.8 days in the field per hunter.
• Unit 109 is 0% national forest and 0% BLM land, about 0 of its 1,042 square miles. Every unit by public land.

DE109O2R is valid in the same unit, in the same season, as DF109O2R.

The ground in unit 109, and legal light on October 24

Land shares are measured inside the unit boundary and count ownership, not access. Legal light is half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset, worked out for the middle of each unit on the Colorado clock: the state's printed sunrise and sunset table is the rule.

Open the map on unit 109, with unit boundaries switched on. Land ownership, roads and State Wildlife Areas are layers on the same map.

See unit 109 on the map

• The unit boundaries for unit 109, over a topo map or an aerial photo.
• Who owns the ground: public and private land, parcel lines and the owner on record.
• Where mule deer live: the published summer and winter range maps.
• How much of each unit is public.

Other deer licenses valid in unit 109

• 2nd rifle, Oct 24 to Nov 3: D-F-109-O2-R (doe)

Other 2026 deer codes that include unit 109 (other methods, late and private-land seasons), with no page here: D-E-109-L2-R (rifle, either-sex, Dec 1 to Dec 14) · D-E-109-O3-A (archery, either-sex) · D-E-109-O3-M (muzzleloader, either-sex) · D-F-109-L2-R (rifle, doe, Dec 1 to Dec 14) · D-F-109-O1-R (rifle, doe) · D-F-109-O3-A (archery, doe) · D-F-109-O3-M (muzzleloader, doe) · D-M-109-L1-R (rifle, buck, Dec 1 to Dec 14) · D-M-109-O1-R (rifle, buck) · D-F-103-L2-R (rifle, doe, Jan 1 to Jan 15). Dates are given only where they could be read from the brochure with confidence.

State Wildlife Areas and State Trust Lands in unit 109

South Republican SWA, 18,365 acresSouth Fork Republican STL, 2,411 acresSettlement STL, 960 acresSpring Valley STL, 960 acresLandsman Creek STL, 332 acres

Each has its own printed rules and closures, and some list no deer hunting: look up any CPW property.