Colorado Pronghorn Mule Deer

Unit 132

Colorado Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer

Unit 132 lies in Prowers County. CPW bounds it by Arkansas River and Prowers CRs D among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 41%. No federal land falls inside it, so every acre is a permission question. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 132

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 132

What CPW publishes for unit 132 is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Prowers County.

The lines of the unit: Arkansas River, Prowers CRs D and U.S. 287

CPW has unit 132 bounded on the north by Arkansas River; on the east by KS; on the south by Prowers CRs D & F; on the west by U.S. 287. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

Holding ground: Long Hollow

Below them sit Long Hollow at 3,613 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA

CPW lists Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 0% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs

Named sources include Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: A-18

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-18, and unit 132 is one piece of it. The rest of A-18 is unit 139 and unit 145. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

Unit 132 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Holding ground: Long Hollow (3,613 ft), Granada SWA, Holly SWA, Mike Higbee SWA, Barrel Spring, Two Butte Springs

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Pronghorn in Unit 132

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 132 at 41% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Finding a view in unit 132

No named high ground falls inside this unit, which changes the method rather than ruling it out. Use the edges instead of the elevation — a field margin, a shelterbelt, the lip of a draw. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem. Cover ground slowly and stop more often than feels sensible.

Getting past the roads

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter. One mapped public entry point falls inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 132 sits inside A-18

Across A-18, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 55% in unit 139, 41% in unit 132 and 27% in unit 145. That puts unit 132 behind 1 of the 2 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 139 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Long Hollow, Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

815 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Colorado has no general off-road retrieval allowance. Travel stays on designated routes, so plan to pack every animal out on your back or with stock. Check the forest or BLM travel map for the roads that are actually open in hunting season.

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

All manners of take41%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 132 at 41% — 44 animals taken by 107 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check CPW's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	11	19	57.9%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	4	7	57.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	7	60	11.7%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	3	0.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (resident)	13	27	48.1%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (nonresident)	0	2	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	6	176	3.4%	4
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	37	5.4%	5
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	12	44	27.3%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	3	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	61	148	41.2%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	22	32	68.8%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 132, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM132O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 176 applicants for 6 licences, 3.4% drawn, 4 preference points needed
AM132P1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 148 applicants for 61 licences, 41.2% drawn, no preference points needed
AF132O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 60 applicants for 7 licences, 11.7% drawn, no preference points needed
AF132P1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 44 applicants for 12 licences, 27.3% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 8 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 132

Unit 132 lies in Prowers County. CPW bounds it by Arkansas River and Prowers CRs D among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 43%. No federal land falls inside it, so every acre is a permission question. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 132

What CPW publishes for unit 132 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Prowers County.

The lines of the unit: Arkansas River, Prowers CRs D and U.S. 287

CPW has unit 132 bounded on the north by Arkansas River; on the east by KS; on the south by Prowers CRs D & F; on the west by U.S. 287. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

Holding ground: Long Hollow

Below them sit Long Hollow at 3,613 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA

Water: Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs

Named sources include Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-28

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-28, and unit 132 is one piece of it. The rest of D-28 is unit 122, unit 125, unit 126, unit 127, unit 129, unit 130, unit 139 and unit 145 and 1 more. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

Unit 132 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Holding ground: Long Hollow (3,613 ft), Granada SWA, Holly SWA, Mike Higbee SWA, Barrel Spring, Two Butte Springs

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 132

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 132 at archery 0% and rifle 43%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Finding a view in unit 132

No named high ground falls inside this unit, which changes the method rather than ruling it out. On flat country ten feet of relief is a glassing position: a tank bank, a terrace above a creek, the shoulder of a county road. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat. Cover ground slowly and stop more often than feels sensible.

Getting past the roads

Where unit 132 sits inside D-28

Across D-28, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 47% in unit 129, 43% in unit 126, 42% in unit 139, 40% in unit 130 and 40% in unit 145. That puts unit 132 behind 7 of the 8 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 129 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Long Hollow, Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

815 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

Mule Deer Success Rates

All manners of take32%

Archery0%

Rifle43%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 132 at 32% — 59 animals taken by 183 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Archery — 0% success, 0 taken by 53 hunters
Rifle — 43% success, 48 taken by 112 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	30	86	34.9%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	3	4	75.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	23	71	32.4%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	1	5	20.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	12	53	22.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	8	34	23.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	14	39	35.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	8	24	33.3%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	21	122	17.2%	1
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	3	16	18.8%	1
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	18	92	19.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	5	13	38.5%	1

Data from 2021 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2021 draw recap for mule deer in unit 132, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM132L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 122 applicants for 21 licences, 17.2% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DM132O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 92 applicants for 18 licences, 19.6% drawn, no preference points needed
DE132L2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Either Sex, resident: 86 applicants for 30 licences, 34.9% drawn, no preference points needed
DE132O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Either Sex, resident: 71 applicants for 23 licences, 32.4% drawn, no preference points needed

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Road Conditions

Paved US 50 and US 287 provide main access. Section-line dirt roads are driveable dry, slick when wet.

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Terrain Difficulty

Easy. Flat shortgrass prairie with subtle rolls.

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Hunting Pressure

Moderate on WIA during rifle; lighter mid-week and during archery.

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Weather

Wind persistent. 30-75F range early; 20-55F late season.

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Cell Service

Reliable along US 50/287; spotty on county roads.

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Nearest Town

Lamar

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 132?

Unit 132 lies in Prowers County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by Arkansas River; on the east by KS; on the south by Prowers CRs D & F; on the west by U.S. 287.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 132?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 132 at 41% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 132?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 132 at 32% across all manners of take, and archery 0% and rifle 43% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-23.

Colorado Big Game Hunting Brochure — Game Management Unit (GMU) Descriptions (pp. 79-80-81-82) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Data analysis unit (DAU) the unit belongs to · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 132, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
CPW CPWAdminData feature service — GMU and sheep/goat unit boundaries — Colorado Parks and Wildlife GIS Unit · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 132, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22

Unit 132

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 132

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 132

The lines of the unit: Arkansas River, Prowers CRs D and U.S. 287

Holding ground: Long Hollow

Public ground to start from: Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA

Water: Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs

The herd this unit belongs to: A-18

Unit 132 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Pronghorn in Unit 132

Pronghorn Success Rates

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 132

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 132

The lines of the unit: Arkansas River, Prowers CRs D and U.S. 287

Holding ground: Long Hollow

Public ground to start from: Granada SWA, Holly SWA and Mike Higbee SWA

Water: Barrel Spring, Blackwater Spring and Two Butte Springs

The herd this unit belongs to: D-28

Unit 132 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 132

Finding a view in unit 132

Getting past the roads

Where unit 132 sits inside D-28

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

What we can't tell you

Colorado rules that decide your day

Legal shooting hours

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Leaving meat

Where you may not shoot

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Shots to refuse

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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