One piece of advice I was given some years ago is to make your contributions as earlier in the year as you can. That is, if your plan is to contribute $12,000 throughout the year, contribute $2000 from Jan. through June instead of $1000 per month so all of your money is working for you longer...
I just looked at SAAMi's recommendations, which is "dry and cool". No threshold specified for either temperature or humidity. I don't know how much effect humidity would have now that powder comes in non-breathable plastic containers.
If you are willing to burn 3-4 points on a RFW cow tag, I think you will have a good chance at success. I’ve never hunted RFW but know folks who do. Some ranches can be hit or miss while other consistently have elk. I can PM you some ranch names to check out if you want.
If you are more...
I leave the meat in the bag when it goes into the cooler. The best way I have found to get the blood out of game bags is to soak them in dish soap and cold water in a 5 gal bucket. I’ll do the dish soap and cold water soak a couple times until the water is mostly clean. Remove any meat pieces...
No worries. You can still hunt deer with the 45 cal in CO. I don’t own one, but the 50 cal CVA Wolf rifles seem to be good shooters and are less than $200.
Here is a link to a financial update from the July meeting that has info through May 9th.
https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Commission/2019/July/Item.8ppt-July_Financial_Update-Justin_Rutter-DNR.pdf
It appears the requirement to buy a combo or small game license to apply along with the price...
A financial update is available along with other info provided for each commission meeting on the CPW website. It is often only financial info for the previous quarter.
How? Annex Eastern Utah?
I’m not aware of revenue derived from license sales being used to non-wildlife purposes. Am I missing something?
I agree that eliminating the ability to get a bull tag and a point in the same year would help this situation, but I’m not sure if enough hunters would...
I have no idea.
It will be interesting to see how much of an increase in revenue is generated this year due to the requirement to have a small game license and the increased point and application fees. I know CPW got another $200 from me alone.
I agree that changing the NR allocation is not going to make 201 easy to draw, but lowering the NR allocation from 20 to 10% would increase the number of tags for residents by 12%. Changing the 35% allocation back to 20% would increase resident tags by 23% annually.
The Res vs NR allocation...
1. Shot a bull on second morning. 14th legal bull I saw. Didn’t see another hunter except for the folks hunting with me. I wasn’t in SW CO though. I normally don’t see many other hunters, but had way more elk around me than most years.
2. I don’t know if this falls under CPWs management plan...