Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 72

Colorado GMU 72 covers 625,213 acres and lies 16 miles west of Cortez and 55 miles west of Durango. 29% of it is public land, mostly BLM (29%). A further 38% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2022, 2 people hunted pronghorn here and took 0 — 0% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2022):0% Public land:29% Size:625,213 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered a pronghorn license in GMU 72 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 Rifle Alamosa
GMU 72 within Colorado
65 66 70 71 711 73 74 741 75 751 77 771 Cortez Durango
GMU 72 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

  • Tribal 235,479 ac · 38%
  • Private 207,127 ac · 33%
  • BLM 179,371 ac · 29%
  • County or city land 2,590 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 407 ac · 0%
  • State land 198 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
2022 2 0 0%

What people carried (2022 harvest)

  • Archery 0 · 2 hunters, 0% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado pronghorn hunts