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Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 87

Colorado GMU 87 covers 714,793 acres and lies 23 miles east of Wellington. 23% of it is public land, mostly national forest (14%) and state land (5%). In 2024, 756 people hunted pronghorn here and took 426 — 56% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 225 tags here for 15 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):486 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:304 Hunter success (2024):56% Public land:23% Size:714,793 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 87, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

13 licenses on offer · 486 tags · 304 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
  • AF087O1A pronghorn female archery season 1 GMU 87 [87] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Undersubscribed
  • AF087O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 87 [87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 951] 1 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF087O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 87 [87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 951] 50 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF087O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 87 [87] 0 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF087P1R pronghorn female rifle private-land-only GMU 87 [87] 30 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF087P5R pronghorn female rifle private-land-only GMU 87 [87] 90 tags · 3 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 87 [87] 12 tags · 12 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 87 [87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 951] 12 tags · 52 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 87 [87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 951] 1 tags · 5 applicants · needed 5 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 87 [87] 42 tags · 173 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 87 [87] 225 tags · 15 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O2R pronghorn male rifle season 2 GMU 87 [87] 20 tags · 36 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM087O2R pronghorn male rifle season 2 GMU 87 [87] 3 tags · 2 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
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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
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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

Wellington Evans Erie Sterling Aurora
GMU 87 within Colorado
19 191 20 88 9 95 951 96 Wellington Severance Greeley
GMU 87 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 552,526 ac · 77%
  • National Forest 100,489 ac · 14%
  • State land 35,173 ac · 5%
  • Other public 14,674 ac · 2%
  • County or city land 11,886 ac · 2%

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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 756 426 56%
2023 773 479 62%
2022 832 538 65%
2021 919 642 70%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 369 · 86% · 580 hunters, 64% success
  • Archery 17 · 4% · 101 hunters, 17% success
  • Muzzleloader 41 · 10% · 74 hunters, 55% 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