Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 71

Colorado GMU 71 covers 332,838 acres and lies 32 miles north-east of Cortez and 56 miles south of Montrose. 85% of it is public land, mostly national forest (84%). In 2024, 4 people hunted pronghorn here and took 2 — 55% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):55% Public land:85% Size:332,838 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered a pronghorn license in GMU 71 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

Cortez Montrose Grand Junction Alamosa Rifle
GMU 71 within Colorado
70 711 72 73 74 75 751 Cortez Durango
GMU 71 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

  • National Forest 281,002 ac · 84%
  • Private 49,922 ac · 15%
  • State land 1,144 ac · 0%
  • BLM 414 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 354 ac · 0%
  • Other public 0 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 4 2 55%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Archery 2 · 100% · 4 hunters, 50% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado pronghorn hunts