Colorado draft big game license recommendations

[Oak]

Are posted. DAU level, not GMU level. But gives an idea of NR archery elk quotas.

Read 'em here.

 

[Mallardsx2]

I'm just glad that they reduced the amount of NR "OTC" licenses by 700. That should make the hunting pressure that all the residents are bitching about soooooooo much better.. lmfao.

I guess the NR's didn't find those "stroke of the proverbial pen" $251.75 bear licenses very palatable after paying $112.34 for years....

 

[rjthehunter]

NR Elk hunters in the OTC units from '23 to '24 dropped -10%. I think some of the Covid onset hunters are finally starting to thin out.

 

[TOGIE]

good news regarding the northwest corner of the state.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

I'm just glad that they reduced the amount of NR "OTC" licenses by 700. That should make the hunting pressure that all the residents are bitching about soooooooo much better.. lmfao.

I guess the NR's didn't find those "stroke of the proverbial pen" $251.75 bear licenses very palatable after paying $112.34 for years....

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Yep our highly “qualified” commissioners passed that with little to no public comment either. These are the same people that claimed lion hunters can use drones, which is prohibited by the commission’s own regulations; that mountain lion hunts guarantee “success at 100%,” when the success rate is closer to 20%; and that wild cats are “not involved in any human conflict,”. Accountable to no one and always looking to stick it to hunters.

 

[BrokenChicken]

I'm just glad that they reduced the amount of NR "OTC" licenses by 700. That should make the hunting pressure that all the residents are bitching about soooooooo much better.. lmfao.

I guess the NR's didn't find those "stroke of the proverbial pen" $251.75 bear licenses very palatable after paying $112.34 for years....

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5.3% reduction not “nothing”
Also splitting up units will help spread nonres out a bit more vs under old system anyone coming from TX/KS hit the souther units, anyone east of CO would first hit NCentral units. U get the idea. Some units were way way way overcrowded.
I think this will help make small improvements

 

[elkduds]

good news regarding the northwest corner of the state.

Severely limiting harvest after the devastating winter looks like it kept the elk population healthy up there. Kudos, CPW.

 

[witski65]

NW must be all recovered from that brutal winter kill.