Colorado Mule Deer Pronghorn

Unit 93 (Elbert / Lincoln Plains)

Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Pronghorn

Unit 93 lies in Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties and covers about 945 square miles. Ground runs from 3,571 to 4,202 feet. CPW bounds it by NEB state line and U.S 6 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 27%. 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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3,571–4,202 ft

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 93

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 93

CPW draws an exact line around unit 93 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. 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 Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties. It runs to about 945 square miles.

The lines of the unit: NEB state line and U.S 6

CPW has unit 93 bounded on the north by I-76; on the north and east by NEB state line; on the south by U.S 6; on the west by I-76. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Marks Butte

Named high points inside the unit include Marks Butte at 4,065 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Holding ground: Sand Draw

Below them sit Sand Draw at 3,670 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Sand Draw SWA

CPW lists Sand Draw 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: Coyote Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 1 mapped stream reaches, 9 lakes and 168 stock tanks. Named sources include Coyote Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-54

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-54, and unit 93 is one piece of it. The rest of D-54 is unit 97, unit 98, unit 99 and unit 100. 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.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 85% and BLM 15%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. A grid sample of the unit reads 3,571 to 4,202 feet, averaging 3,823 — a sample rather than a survey, so read the ends as approximate. There is not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.

Unit 93 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

3,571–4,202 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 3,823 ft ; peaks can run higher.
944.9 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

168 tanks
1 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Marks Butte (4,065 ft)

Holding ground: Sand Draw (3,670 ft), Sand Draw SWA, Coyote Spring

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 93

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 93 at archery 27% and rifle 25%. 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.

Glassing from Marks Butte

Take a position on Marks Butte (4,065 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water decides where you sit

With 168 tanks and only 1 mapped stream reaches, this is ground where standing water is made rather than found. Find the two or three holding water near a glassing position and you have found the only appointment the animals keep. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 79/48°F, Oct 64/35°F and Nov 51/24°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.4 in. in Sep, 1.3 in. in Oct and 0.5 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: I 76 and County Road 55

I 76 and US 6 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter. 124 mapped public entry points fall inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 93 sits inside D-54

Across D-54, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 45% in unit 97, 42% in unit 98, 33% in unit 99, 33% in unit 100 and 25% in unit 93. Unit 93 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 97 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 Marks Butte as places to see from, and Sand Draw, Sand Draw SWA, Walk-In Access 21 — C and Walk-In Access 24 — C 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 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 93

Named routes and what they need

I 76 — 63.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 55 — 19.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 6 — 19.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Road 310;County Road 63.2 — 15.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 9 — 10.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 26 — 9.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Sedgwick — 12.6 mi · no services listed
Haxtun — 13.3 mi · no services listed
Ovid — 13.7 mi · fuel
Holyoke — 14.2 mi · fuel, groceries
Julesburg — 17.8 mi · fuel

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 15° · 0.3" precip
Aug87° / 58° · 2.2" precip
Sep79° / 48° · 1.4" precip
Oct64° / 35° · 1.3" precip
Nov51° / 24° · 0.5" precip
Dec40° / 15° · 0.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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.

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.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

All manners of take25%

Archery27%

Rifle25%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 93 at 25% — 132 animals taken by 528 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 — 27% success, 7 taken by 25 hunters
Rifle — 25% success, 122 taken by 488 hunters

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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	49	89	55.1%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	21	27	77.8%	—
Any Legal Method — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	126	337	37.4%	—
Any Legal Method — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	5	9	55.6%	—
Any Legal Method — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	9	58	15.5%	—
Any Legal Method — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	16	59	27.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	16	42	38.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	21	130	16.2%	2
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	6	31	19.4%	4
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	18	87	20.7%	2
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	6	26	23.1%	4
Muzzleloader — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	2	15	13.3%	—
Muzzleloader — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	20	46	43.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	0	2	0.0%	—

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 mule deer in unit 93, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DE093O2X — Any Legal Method, 2nd Season, Either Sex, resident: 337 applicants for 126 licences, 37.4% drawn, no preference points needed
DM093L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 130 applicants for 21 licences, 16.2% drawn, 2 preference points needed
DE093O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 89 applicants for 49 licences, 55.1% drawn, no preference points needed
DM093O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 87 applicants for 18 licences, 20.7% drawn, 2 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 12 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 93

Unit 93 lies in Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties and covers about 945 square miles. Ground runs from 3,571 to 4,202 feet. CPW bounds it by NEB state line and U.S 6 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 33%. 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 Pronghorn in Unit 93

What CPW publishes for unit 93 is a boundary, not a pronghorn 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 Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties. It runs to about 945 square miles.

The lines of the unit: NEB state line and U.S 6

CPW has unit 93 bounded on the north by I-76; on the north and east by NEB state line; on the south by U.S 6; on the west by I-76. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Marks Butte

Named high points inside the unit include Marks Butte at 4,065 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Sand Draw

Below them sit Sand Draw at 3,670 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Sand Draw SWA

Water: Coyote Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: A-4

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-4, and unit 93 is one piece of it. The rest of A-4 is unit 97, unit 98, unit 101 and unit 102. That matters twice over: the population objective and the licence numbers are set for the whole area, and the animals move across unit lines inside it without noticing them.

Reading the land status

Unit 93 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

3,571–4,202 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 3,823 ft ; peaks can run higher.
944.9 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

168 tanks
1 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Marks Butte (4,065 ft)

Holding ground: Sand Draw (3,670 ft), Sand Draw SWA, Coyote Spring

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 93

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 93 at 33% 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.

Glassing from Marks Butte

Take a position on Marks Butte (4,065 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water decides where you sit

With 168 tanks and only 1 mapped stream reaches, this is ground where standing water is made rather than found. Find the two or three holding water near a glassing position and you have found the only appointment the animals keep. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 76 and County Road 55

Where unit 93 sits inside A-4

Across A-4, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 55% in unit 97, 46% in unit 98 and 33% in unit 93. Unit 93 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 97 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 Marks Butte as places to see from, and Sand Draw, Sand Draw SWA, Walk-In Access 21 — C and Walk-In Access 24 — C as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 93

Named routes and what they need

I 76 — 63.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 55 — 19.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
US 6 — 19.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Road 310;County Road 63.2 — 15.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 9 — 10.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 26 — 9.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Sedgwick — 12.6 mi · no services listed
Haxtun — 13.3 mi · no services listed
Ovid — 13.7 mi · fuel
Holyoke — 14.2 mi · fuel, groceries
Julesburg — 17.8 mi · fuel

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 15° · 0.3" precip
Aug87° / 58° · 2.2" precip
Sep79° / 48° · 1.4" precip
Oct64° / 35° · 1.3" precip
Nov51° / 24° · 0.5" precip
Dec40° / 15° · 0.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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.

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 take33%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 93 at 33% — 5 animals taken by 15 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	6	46	13.0%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	4	50.0%	6
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	6	52	11.5%	2
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	12	0.0%	—

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

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 93, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM093O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 52 applicants for 6 licences, 11.5% drawn, 2 preference points needed
AM093O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 46 applicants for 6 licences, 13% drawn, 1 preference point needed
AM093O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 12 applicants for 0 licences, 0% drawn, no preference points needed
AM093O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 4 applicants for 2 licences, 50% drawn, 6 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. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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Camp Sites

No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data — plan on dispersed camping and check the land status first.

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Road Conditions

I 76, County Road 55 and US 6 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 93 mi paved, 174 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

3,571–4,202 ft, averaging 3,823. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 79/48°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 64/35°F, 1.3 in.; Nov 51/24°F, 0.5 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 26%, AT&T 17%, T-Mobile 9% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Sedgwick (13 mi), Haxtun (13 mi), Ovid (14 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 93?

Unit 93 lies in Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by I-76; on the north and east by NEB state line; on the south by U.S 6; on the west by I-76. It covers about 945 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 93?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 93 at 25% across all manners of take, and archery 27% and rifle 25% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 93 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 93 are at Sedgwick, about 13 miles from the unit's centre, with Haxtun at about 13 miles. No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data, so plan on dispersed camping.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 93?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 93 at 33% across all manners of take. 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 Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 93, 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 Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 93, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22