Colorado preference point cost

[opdinkslayer]

Anybody else bailing out of the Colorado point game with the new qualifying license requirements pushing deer point cost over $130 bucks a year? We will be trying to cash our 9 pts & get out for good this year.

[BULLBLASTER]

Good! I hope everyone quits. 

FYI it isn’t $130 for it it’s the small game license, habitat stamp and then $9 for the deer app. No preference point fee this year. Except moose sheep goat.

[opdinkslayer]

It’s still $90 bucks. So basically 100% increase to chaise your tail since there 10’s of thousands that got in the game last year. The avg guy will get priced out of hunting out of state in the next 10 years. It’s already become pick your poison for most & Colorado is not mine. For now I can build 2 species in Wyoming for the cost of Colorado’s one. Good luck to everyone else that’s at the bottom looking up. That’s a lot of money spent just to get into position to draw a tag.

[Stein]

1.  Legislature cuts budget
2.  Game agencies raise non-resident prices (except in WA where they have to raise resident because NR hunting here is incredibly poor)
3.  We gripe, then pay it.
4.  Back to step 1.

[BULLBLASTER]

I couldn’t imagine having 9 deer points in co personally. I like to hunt too much for that.   

I won’t be going this year but will get my points.

Hopefully lots of people drop out because of it. Ideally I’d rather them go back to how it was before, front the tag fee.

It’s pretty close to the same cost for deer and elk points in co and wyo.

[Jonathan_S]

9 pts in Colorado? Just waiting for the right time or what?

[opdinkslayer]

No we applied before & got screwed by point creep & have been doing other hunts in other states since then.

You can acquire a point for elk,deer& antelope in Wyoming for $124 so not even in the same ballpark unless Colorado gives you a point in all 3 for the price of a small game license?

[BULLBLASTER]

No we applied before & got screwed by point creep & have been doing other hunts in other states since then.

You can acquire a point for elk,deer& antelope in Wyoming for $124 so not even in the same ballpark unless Colorado gives you a point in all 3 for the price of a small game license?

It’s a small game license plus a habitat stamp plus $9 each for deer elk and antelope. So $120 ish...

Wyoming also added a transaction fee this year too. I don’t know how much it is though

[actionshooter]

The points game is out of hand

[Bigshooter]

Hopefully we see a lot of guys start dumping pts and getting out of CO.

[Branden]

If you actually apply and buy points Colorado is way cheaper than Wyoming. Wyoming is the most expensive state to apply and gain points for all species. Its over $800 non refundable a year.

[dscubame]

It’s still $90 bucks. So basically 100% increase to chaise your tail since there 10’s of thousands that got in the game last year. The avg guy will get priced out of hunting out of state in the next 10 years. It’s already become pick your poison for most & Colorado is not mine. For now I can build 2 species in Wyoming for the cost of Colorado’s one. Good luck to everyone else that’s at the bottom looking up. That’s a lot of money spent just to get into position to draw a tag.

Good luck with that WY strategy, that ship recently sailed.

[opdinkslayer]

We will see. I have a buddy in Wyoming so that carries weight in my decision on where to spend my money & hunt. Colorado has changed the way to apply many times since I started with points & I think they implement the species point fees back on next year. Maybe I’ll change my opinion after we go hunt this year but I doubt it.

[idahohuntr]

No we applied before & got screwed by point creep & have been doing other hunts in other states since then.

You can acquire a point for elk,deer& antelope in Wyoming for $124 so not even in the same ballpark unless Colorado gives you a point in all 3 for the price of a small game license?

It’s a small game license plus a habitat stamp plus $9 each for deer elk and antelope. So $120 ish...

Wyoming also added a transaction fee this year too. I don’t know how much it is though

2.5% CC fee.

[180-GRAIN]

It’s still $90 bucks. So basically 100% increase to chaise your tail since there 10’s of thousands that got in the game last year. The avg guy will get priced out of hunting out of state in the next 10 years. It’s already become pick your poison for most & Colorado is not mine. For now I can build 2 species in Wyoming for the cost of Colorado’s one. Good luck to everyone else that’s at the bottom looking up. That’s a lot of money spent just to get into position to draw a tag.

I think a lot of  will back out this year. I had a few buddies that applied thinking it was only going to cost the 10$ for the conservation license and the 3$ or whatever it was for the applications. They didn't realize that they were charged for the bonus point later and freaked out about it  . None of those 3 guys are applying this year.