Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 40

Colorado GMU 40 covers 475,151 acres and lies 15 miles south of Fruita and 41 miles west of Delta. 62% of it is public land, mostly BLM (56%) and national park (4%). In 2024, 5 people hunted pronghorn here and took 2 — 33% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):33% Public land:62% Size:475,151 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered a pronghorn license in GMU 40 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Colorado pronghorn hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Grand Junction Delta Rifle Cortez Craig
GMU 40 within Colorado
30 31 41 411 42 421 52 60 61 62 64 Grand Junction Delta Montrose
GMU 40 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

  • BLM 265,991 ac · 56%
  • Private 179,322 ac · 38%
  • National Park Service 20,428 ac · 4%
  • National Forest 7,429 ac · 2%
  • County or city land 1,780 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 161 ac · 0%
  • Other public 24 ac · 0%

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 5 2 33%
2023 6 2 30%
2022 3 0 0%
2021 2 0 0%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Archery 2 · 100% · 5 hunters, 40% 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