THE DETAILS BEHIND THE DATA
About, data & legal
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Research for your next hunt.
TagSeer brings published hunting statistics, license reports and access estimates into one place. It is an independent research tool, not a licensing, reservation, navigation or guiding service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by CPW or the other agencies credited below.
Before you act on a result
- Check the official license. Confirm current dates, eligibility, limits and restrictions with CPW.
- Verify access. Maps and acreage estimates do not authorize entry or hunting.
- Keep the numbers in context. Historical success is not your personal odds, and a reported quantity is not a held license.
If information differs, current official requirements and the relevant land manager’s or landowner’s rules control.
Search help
Start with a view. Available licenses uses saved leftover and reissue reports. All licenses searches the catalog assembled from available reports; it is not a guarantee of a complete current-year license catalog. Primary draw emphasizes historical demand and draw results.
Use filters or enter codes. Filters update automatically. Press Enter to submit codes separated by commas. Each * replaces one code position: EM003O*R searches matching seasons in unit 003. A lone * matches all codes. Searches are case insensitive.
How codes and filters work together
Submitting codes updates the species, unit, sex, season and weapon controls where the codes allow it. Changing those controls, access, companion mode or selected map units clears the code search. Minimum harvest, public-land and quantity filters can still narrow code results. Mixed or wildcard codes may leave a control broad; the submitted codes still define the search.
Read and refine. Click a column heading to sort, then again to reverse it. Use + to choose columns and scroll to load more hunts. Open a code for dates, restrictions, access by unit and earlier-year history. Unit filters include additional units listed on a license; typing units and selecting them on the map use the same selection.
Missing is not zero. A dash means unavailable. Minimum filters exclude records missing that measurement. Public-land minimums use the conservative estimate; quantity filters apply to availability reports.
Companion-license searches
Companion searches find shared units and overlapping dates. Opposite-sex searches identify possible A/B or B/B pairs; two-species searches use the selected list allowances. A match does not establish that both licenses cover the same parcels, that restrictions align or that you can legally hold both. Verify CPW’s current license limits before purchasing.
Reading the numbers
Compare like with like: species, report year, season, area and denominator all matter. Open a hunt to inspect the underlying observations.
Harvest & effort
- Harvest %
- Reported harvest ÷ participating hunters × 100. Some sources, including bear reports, use licenses sold instead; that different basis is identified with the rate. These are past population-level results, not a prediction for you.
- H / 100 days
- Harvests per 100 hunter-days: reported harvest ÷ total hunter-days × 100. It describes harvest relative to effort, not the percentage of hunters who succeeded.
- Days / harvest
- Total hunter-days ÷ harvest. Days / hunter instead divides effort by participating hunters. Some hunter-days are reconstructed from published averages and inherit their rounding.
- Earlier years & groups
- Older unit reports can combine codes, sexes or seasons. They remain distinct from exact-code results. Pooled rates sum compatible counts rather than average percentages. Missing denominators reduce coverage; incompatible bases are not combined. Combined-sex hunter counts do not support sex-specific success rates.
Land & access estimates
- Public % / acres
- Conservative whole-unit planning estimates of generally huntable acreage. Special access requiring a separate permit or drawing and Walk-In Access (WIA) are excluded. These shared estimates use an elk/ordinary-rifle access approximation; they are not species- or license-specific.
- Multiple units
- Public percentages use total estimated public acres divided by total area across unique GMUs, not an average of their percentages. Missing unit estimates leave the combined total unknown; individual units remain available in the details.
- Lower / upper estimates
- “Lower” describes the conservative method, not a guaranteed minimum of accessible land today. A potential upper estimate includes uncertain acreage; it is not a statistical confidence interval or permission to use that land.
- Land quality
- A limited-evidence judgment about relative public/private hunting quality. It does not adjust harvest rates or public-acre estimates and is not a recommendation score. It does not measure the share of harvests taken on public land.
Draw demand & points
- Apps / quota
- First-choice applications ÷ general quota for the published quota group. This measures historical demand, not individual draw odds; a quota group can span more than one hunt code.
- Draw tier
- The last tier drawn for the selected residency and applicant group. Final-tier awards and applicants describe that historical tier, not a guaranteed future point requirement.
- Draw fill
- Primary-draw awards as a percentage of quota, where the source identifies a single hunt code.
- Reissue opportunity
- An observed reissue is evidence of supply, not the chance of obtaining a license. The reports do not identify how many people competed for it. Missing archive weeks are unknown, not zero reissues.
Reports & freshness
Quantities are snapshots. Leftover and reissue counts come from saved CPW reports. They can change before you act and do not represent a live inventory, reservation or guarantee that a license will be offered. Check CPW’s purchasing system before buying.
Last refresh is a check time. It records the application’s last successful report check; the report itself can be older or unchanged. Failed checks may leave the last usable snapshot visible with a warning. Neither a recent check nor a scheduled countdown confirms that CPW has published new inventory.
During the reissue season, CPW schedules previews for Tuesday at 11 AM Mountain Time and releases licenses Wednesday as close to 11 AM as its system allows. This app may retain the saved preview until 1 PM Wednesday for reference only. That grace period does not mean CPW’s preview remains current. See CPW’s current reissue process.
Combined reports and recorded examples
The CLI/API’s combined-source option retains separate counts and dates. It adds quantities only for matching, fresh, current-week sources before release. Afterward, where a leftover row exists, it uses that quantity to avoid double-counting. Preview-only rows during the reference period retain outdated scheduled counts. Any pre-release total is an estimate, not guaranteed drop inventory.
A video marked Demo shows a recorded example using archived reports. Its dates and quantities are not current availability.
Displayed restrictions may be incomplete. Follow the current brochure, official license description and land-access rules. Statistical reports can contain survey uncertainty, rounding, revisions and missing denominators.
Maps & access
For illustration only. Boundaries and land shading are approximate. Do not use this map for navigation, parcel boundaries or permission to enter or hunt land.
A highlighted GMU is a broad reference area, not the exact legal footprint of every license. Big-game GMUs do not replace the separate sheep and mountain-goat unit systems. Federal-land shading identifies approximate surface management; unshaded areas are not necessarily private. Simplification can omit small parcels and private inholdings.
Ownership alone does not establish a legal access route. Check closures, roads and trails, easements, property rules and reservation or permit requirements. Obtain required private-land permission. Access can vary by species, season and license; even a conservative acreage estimate is not a guarantee of current access.
Outdoor activities involve risks such as injury, exposure, wildlife encounters and loss of communications. Make a safety plan and use current authoritative information and suitable navigation tools.
Privacy
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Sources & credits
Source agencies have not certified this app’s calculations or endorsed its interpretation. Source dates and methodology matter; government publication does not make every item unrestricted or current.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Harvest, draw, population and license reports; GMU outlines and public-access/property layers. The app standardizes factual records and derives comparison metrics. Map geometry is simplified and reprojected. CPW retains rights in its state-created material; it is not labeled federal public domain.
CPW reports & information ↗GIS downloads & use information ↗
Bureau of Land Management, Colorado
Surface Management Agency data supplies the federal-land shading (October 16, 2026 snapshot) and federal parcels for the independent access estimates. The app combined, clipped and simplified features and omitted very small display features. BLM has not approved these modifications. The source is not a survey or legal boundary determination.
Other federal mapping sources
Neighboring-state outlines use generalized and reprojected U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb 2026 data. Access estimates also use USGS National Hydrography Dataset water information and Geographic Names Information System context, National Park Service boundaries, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fee-tract information. Data available from U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program.
Whole-unit access estimates were independently prepared October 17, 2026 from these sources, CPW property layers and published property rules. Overlays, conservative deductions and access judgments are the app’s work. Earlier COMaP-derived estimates are excluded from the active dataset. No exclusive rights are asserted in public facts or original U.S. Government works.
Software notices
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Use & limitations
Service and information
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Research results are not legal advice, a professional land survey, a safety assessment or an individualized recommendation to enter or hunt a place. Verify current official information before applying, purchasing, traveling or hunting. Report suspected errors through contact & feedback.
Limits of responsibility
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the operator disclaims liability for losses arising from use of, or reliance on, this service, including errors, omissions, interruptions and decisions involving licenses, travel, land access or outdoor activities. This includes consequential losses and claims concerning property damage or personal injury only where such limitations are legally permitted.
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Original work & reasonable use
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