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Big Game Hunting => Out Of State Hunting => Topic started by: actionshooter on March 27, 2019, 09:50:31 PM

Title: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: actionshooter on March 27, 2019, 09:50:31 PM: I want to go hunt Co this year but can't figure out what I want to do. I have 5 points for deer and elk, don't necessarily need to use them up and would be ok to keep collecting points. I have a buddy with no points who wants to go and is ok hunting anything... he would be good with a cow tag.
Thinking maybe putting in for an impossible 1st choice and taking a 2nd, maybe an over the counter Elk tag?

What would you guys do?
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Karl Blanchard on March 27, 2019, 10:30:45 PM: Every year you dont hunt CO is a year you didnt get to hunt CO. So regardless of options (elk are dumb) you should not be sitting at home when you could have a tag in hand :twocents:
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Skyvalhunter on March 28, 2019, 05:20:51 AM: Colorado is a state built for quantity not quality. Not to say a nice bull if that's what you are looking for can't be found. But it is a state that allows opportunity. So if your friend wants to hunt and isn't looking for quality and you are willing to go then apply for one of the units you know best or the one with statistically the best chance to harvest an elk. :twocents:
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Bucks2Ducks on March 28, 2019, 06:35:15 AM: Quote from: Karl Blanchard on March 27, 2019, 10:30:45 PM
Every year you dont hunt CO is a year you didnt get to hunt CO. So regardless of options (elk are dumb) you should not be sitting at home when you could have a tag in hand :twocents:
:chuckle: At least elk run away, unlike mule deer that only go ten feet and stop to look at you
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Mtnwalker on March 28, 2019, 06:59:33 AM: Your 5 elk points doesn’t get you much in CO, but I would spend those 5 deer points on a unit where your buddy can get an otc bull tag. Quite a few decent options
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: actionshooter on March 28, 2019, 09:08:55 PM: I was thinking about trying to draw a tag as a 2nd choice for 3rd season mule deer, to keep building points, but it looks like the odds really suck, A lot of decent tags can be drawn with 1-3 points on the 1st draw, what's the point of the 2nd option?.... I'm so confused...

I'm missing how easy Idaho is...
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Mtnwalker on March 29, 2019, 09:40:11 AM: Colorado considers everybody’s 1st choice before any 2nd choice are drawn so basically 2nd choice is the leftovers from the first round. Usually units with high tag numbers or lots of private land. There are a few ok deer hunts available as 2nd choice but overall not much to get excited about. I learned the hard way that saving your points gets you nowhere as I’ve been losing ground the last 4 years on a few units I had my eye on, wish I would have burned my points 5 years ago. You could look at something like a 62 3rd for deer and your buddy can get an elk tag but you have lots of options
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: meatwhack on March 29, 2019, 03:37:01 PM: With the changes Colorado made are they still requiring the purchase of deer and elk tags to put in for the draw or just a small game licens now?
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: grundy53 on March 29, 2019, 03:49:11 PM: Just a small game license

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Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: meatwhack on March 29, 2019, 04:42:21 PM: Cool thanks I gotta get that done in the next couple days.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: cardinalguns on March 29, 2019, 05:44:36 PM: And that small game license plus habitat stamp will run you $91.75 before you even get to the big game selections.

What an effing ripoff. If it weren't for family there and my holding 14 points, I would give the state of CO my middle finger.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Karl Blanchard on March 29, 2019, 07:21:04 PM: It's less expensive to point build than most states. It could be a 140+ license like most western states :dunno:
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: meatwhack on March 29, 2019, 07:40:25 PM: It seems like it’s pretty close still to what it used to cost if you were doing deer and elk. I’m never good at keeping track of exactly what it was after the refund before.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: cardinalguns on March 29, 2019, 08:34:12 PM: Quote from: Karl Blanchard on March 29, 2019, 07:21:04 PM
It's less expensive to point build than most states. It could be a 140+ license like most western states :dunno:

It is better this year- they don't stick you for the whole license cost and use your money to build interest until June. They charge the preference point fee (TRIPLE what it used to be) and you get charged for the license if you draw.

And by the way, my antelope tag for WY cost me $34.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: Karl Blanchard on March 29, 2019, 08:48:57 PM: To get deer, elk, and antelope points in WY as a non resident its $120. It's only $117 in CO.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: mtmn35rem5 on March 29, 2019, 09:04:36 PM: @cardinalguns: please drop out of the Colorado points game if you’re so bent out of shape about paying for it.
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: jjhunter on March 29, 2019, 09:05:20 PM: I gotta take a year off from CO this year. Too many tags already!
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: slavenoid on March 29, 2019, 09:24:37 PM: I thought Colorado was the place everyone goes to when they don't draw something. Isn't it one of the few states that is known for good over the counter tags? :dunno:
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: BULLBLASTER on March 30, 2019, 11:06:33 AM: Quote from: cardinalguns on March 29, 2019, 08:34:12 PM
Quote from: Karl Blanchard on March 29, 2019, 07:21:04 PM
It's less expensive to point build than most states. It could be a 140+ license like most western states :dunno:

It is better this year- they don't stick you for the whole license cost and use your money to build interest until June. They charge the preference point fee (TRIPLE what it used to be) and you get charged for the license if you draw.

And by the way, my antelope tag for WY cost me $34.
They don’t have a preference point fee this year for deer elk or antelope
Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: andrew_in_idaho on March 30, 2019, 12:37:30 PM: Quote from: slavenoid on March 29, 2019, 09:24:37 PM
I thought Colorado was the place everyone goes to when they don't draw something. Isn't it one of the few states that is known for good over the counter tags? :dunno:
OTC for elk but all mule deer is draw

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Title: Re: Can't figure out what to do for Colorado
Post by: actionshooter on March 30, 2019, 09:29:06 PM: Well right or wrong I have my apps in, pretty excited, haven't hunted Colorado in 10 years. Thanks guys..