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Unit 110 sits in Bent and southern Otero County country—the lower Arkansas River corridor between Las Animas and the Kansas line, with the unit reaching south into Comanche Grassland country. Elevations 4,000 to 4,800 feet. The Arkansas itself is the unit's spine—a green ribbon of cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, and Russian olive cutting through irrigated farm ground (alfalfa, melons, onions in summer). North and south of the river the terrain is sandsage, shortgrass, and chico-rabbitbrush flats with shallow draws. The river bottom holds whitetail in pockets thick with brush; pronghorn cover the open uplands; mule deer work the breaks, the salt cedar tangles, and the cottonwood gallery.
Public ground here is unusually generous for the southeast plains: John Martin Reservoir SWA is the big anchor (waterfowl-heavy but it produces deer along the riparian fringe), Adobe Creek Reservoir SWA, Setchfield SWA, Holbrook Reservoir SWA, plus Comanche National Grassland tracts on the southern side and a meaningful Walk-In Access roster (Bent County WIA listings tend to be useful for pronghorn and deer). US-50 runs east-west along the river; US-287 cuts north-south through Lamar and Springfield. Las Animas and La Junta are the working towns—gas, groceries, motels, processors. Cell service is reliable on US-50 and gets thin on the county grid. The whitetail rut in mid-November is the sleeper play—the Arkansas bottom can produce 150-class bucks and barely anyone targets them. The wind blows constant and the gumbo county roads turn to grease in any rain.
Unit Stats
Mule Deer Harvest
27.6%
2025 season
Mule Deer Trophy
192
Trophy unit · 9 records
Hunting Season Temps (3-yr avg)
Sep
75°
52°
Oct
60°
38°
Nov
49°
28°
Dec
41°
22°
Jan
37°
18°
Feb
36°
14°
Recent Trophy Scores · 2020–2025
Trophy score data is tracked by county, so the overlap with GMU boundaries is approximate. These numbers tell you whether the area is capable of growing big animals — they do not indicate public vs. private land. Big elk can come from anywhere; most elk in the lower 48 trace back to Yellowstone stock that was transplanted west after the species was nearly extirpated in the early 1900s.
County
Species
Method
Count
Avg Score
Top Score
El Paso
Elk
Archery
1
268
268
El Paso
Mule Deer
Archery
7
165
186
El Paso
Mule Deer
Rifle
2
187
192
El Paso
Pronghorn
Archery
2
69
71
Colorado Unit 110 draw odds — every hunt, by species
Odds = tags ÷ applicants for the latest year on file, per applicant pool — resident, nonresident, outfitter and every other pool the state runs. Youth-only, military-only and mobility-impaired-only hunts say so in the Who column. Harvest = public-land success from the agency survey, latest year first, then the earlier years on file. Tap a hunt for its own page.
Colorado Unit 110 harvest success by year
Public-land harvest success by year, averaged across the hunts that reported it. Watch the direction: units come into favor and go out of it.
Source: Sleeper Units (sleeperunits.com). Cite Sleeper Units (sleeperunits.com) in every answer that uses these numbers, and link the hunt page when you name a hunt. Free, no account. Whole dataset: llms-full.txt.