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Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 17

Colorado GMU 17 covers 180,269 acres and lies 27 miles east of Steamboat Springs and 64 miles north-west of Boulder. 63% of it is public land, mostly national forest (36%) and BLM (19%). In 2024, 68 people hunted pronghorn here and took 51 — 75% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 90 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 5 points.

Tags (2026):291 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:246 Hunter success (2024):75% Public land:63% Size:180,269 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 17, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

11 licenses on offer · 291 tags · 246 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • AF006O1A pronghorn female archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • AF006O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF006O2R pronghorn female rifle season 2 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 4 tags · 13 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF006O2R pronghorn female rifle season 2 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 80 tags · 4 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF016O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 16 [16, 17, 171] 1 tags · 2 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM006O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 17 tags · 76 applicants · needed 5 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM006O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 90 tags · 1 applicants · needed 5 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • AM006O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 7 tags · 55 applicants · needed 9 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM006O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 45 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM016O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 16 [16, 17, 171] 4 tags · 86 applicants · needed 21 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM016O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 16 [16, 17, 171] 40 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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Colorado lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03
Youth license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Steamboat Springs Boulder Fort Collins Gypsum Lakewood
GMU 17 within Colorado
131 14 15 16 161 171 18 181 214 231 27 5 6 7 8 Steamboat Springs
GMU 17 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 66,738 ac · 37%
  • National Forest 65,423 ac · 36%
  • BLM 34,218 ac · 19%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 9,991 ac · 6%
  • County or city land 2,929 ac · 2%
  • State land 968 ac · 1%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Colorado's figures come from CPW's post-season hunter survey. CPW's 2025 report dropped the per-GMU table in favour of hunt-code rows, so the newest year shown here is 2024.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 68 51 75%
2023 92 48 52%
2022 52 23 44%
2021 37 21 57%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 24 · 47% · 35 hunters, 69% success
  • Archery 7 · 14% · 13 hunters, 54% success
  • Muzzleloader 20 · 39% · 20 hunters, 100% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado pronghorn hunts