Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 83

Colorado GMU 83 covers 801,273 acres and lies 27 miles south-east of Alamosa and 81 miles south of Cañon City. 5% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (3%) and wildlife refuge (1%). In 2024, 27 people hunted pronghorn here and took 20 — 75% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 15 tags here for 0 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):19 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:50 Hunter success (2024):75% Public land:5% Size:801,273 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 83, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

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

AM068O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 68 [68, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 681, 682, 791] 2 tags · 33 applicants · needed 15 pts · Standard

0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
AM068O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 68 [68, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 681, 682, 791] 15 tags · 0 applicants · Youth

100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
AM083O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 83 [83] 1 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard

0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
AM083O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 83 [83] 1 tags · 16 applicants · needed 9 pts · Standard

0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	License	Season
AM068O1M ↗ pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 68 [68, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 681, 682, 791] Muzzleloader	0% Point builder	0%	15 −4 since 2021	2 / 33	Standard	Sep 21–29, 2026
AM068O1M ↗ pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 68 [68, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 681, 682, 791] Muzzleloader	100% No first-choice applicants	0%	—	15 / 0	Youth	Sep 21–29, 2026
AM083O1A ↗ pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 83 [83] Archery	0% Undersubscribed	0%	1 +1 since 2023	1 / 1 undersubscribed	Standard	Aug 15 – Sep 20, 2026
AM083O1R ↗ pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 83 [83] Rifle	0% Point builder	0%	9 −1 since 2023	1 / 16	Standard	Oct 3–11, 2026

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.

2 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 83

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

AM083P1A — pronghorn male archery private-land-only GMU 83 [83] Standard AM083P1R — pronghorn male rifle private-land-only GMU 83 [Saguache Creek drainage and Kerber Creek drainage 83] Youth

The country

GMU 83 within Colorado

GMU 83 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 761,230 ac · 95%
County or city land 22,382 ac · 3%
National Wildlife Refuge 11,535 ac · 1%
BLM 3,792 ac · 0%
State land 646 ac · 0%
National Forest 576 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

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.