Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 4

Colorado GMU 4 covers 299,151 acres and lies 20 miles north-east of Craig and 37 miles north-west of Steamboat Springs. 47% of it is public land, mostly national forest (30%) and BLM (11%). In 2024, 55 people hunted pronghorn here and took 47 — 85% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 47 tags here for 25 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 3 points.

Tags (2026):138 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:156 Hunter success (2024):85% Public land:47% Size:299,151 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 4, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

14 licenses on offer · 138 tags · 156 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
  • AM003W1R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 3 3 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AM004O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 1 tags · 15 applicants · needed 5 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 15 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 5 tags · 20 applicants · needed 7 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 25 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 1 tags · 84 applicants · needed 13 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 4 [4, 5] 30 tags · 10 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004P5R pronghorn male rifle private-land-only GMU 4 [4, 5] 47 tags · 25 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM004P5R pronghorn male rifle private-land-only GMU 4 [4, 5] 2 tags · 1 applicants · needed 4 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • AM004W1R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AM004W2R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 4 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AM005W2R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 5 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AM214W2R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 214 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AM441W1R pronghorn male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 441 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
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
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
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
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.
11 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

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.

Other licenses valid in GMU 4

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Craig Gypsum Boulder Fort Collins Grand Junction
GMU 4 within Colorado
11 13 131 14 16 161 211 214 3 301 441 5 Craig Steamboat Springs
GMU 4 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 159,520 ac · 53%
  • National Forest 90,372 ac · 30%
  • BLM 31,985 ac · 11%
  • County or city land 13,952 ac · 5%
  • State land 3,311 ac · 1%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

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 55 47 85%
2023 79 68 86%
2022 418 370 88%
2021 365 285 78%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 30 · 64% · 35 hunters, 86% success
  • Archery 8 · 17% · 10 hunters, 80% success
  • Muzzleloader 9 · 19% · 10 hunters, 90% 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