Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 50

Colorado GMU 50 covers 320,140 acres and lies 49 miles west of Monument. 44% of it is public land, mostly national forest (23%) and BLM (10%). In 2024, 56 people hunted pronghorn here and took 17 — 31% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 20 tags here for 3 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):35 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:68 Hunter success (2024):31% Public land:44% Size:320,140 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 50, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

8 licenses on offer · 35 tags · 68 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
  • AF049O1A pronghorn female archery season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents
  • AF049O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents
  • AF049O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 0 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF049O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 10 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM049O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 1 tags · 10 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM049O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 1 tags · 3 applicants · needed 7 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM049O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 3 tags · 50 applicants · needed 18 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM049O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 49 [49, 50, 500, 501] 20 tags · 3 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
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.

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

Monument Littleton Cañon City Superior Gypsum
GMU 50 within Colorado
45 46 461 48 481 49 500 501 51 511 512 57 58 581 Monument Littleton Castle Rock Castle Pines
GMU 50 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 177,864 ac · 56%
  • National Forest 72,157 ac · 23%
  • BLM 32,404 ac · 10%
  • County or city land 31,963 ac · 10%
  • State land 5,750 ac · 2%

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 56 17 31%
2023 51 21 41%
2022 68 33 48%
2021 60 26 43%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 15 · 88% · 24 hunters, 63% success
  • Archery 2 · 12% · 22 hunters, 9% success
  • Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 10 hunters, 0% 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