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52 minutes of a busy signal.....laffin....

He fiddled around with her until 9:30, never being successful getting his daughter a tag. By then, mine were gone as well. Bummer.

I was at a small chain store (Big-5), several back in line. They couldn't get the system to work initially and another location of same chain called and said they were also having issues. Finally issued the first tag around 9:20. When I got to the counter at 9:45 or so, the tags I really wanted were gone. Did get one that had started with 101 available when the games began.

Anyone else have success at a non-CPW retail location right at 9:00? (Just wondering if the hiccup was with Big-5, or CPW...again.)

I tried for these about 15 years ago and decided that if I can't buy one off my laptop, I don't want one bad enough to put up with that crap.

Total fiasco here too... Second guy in line took over 1/2 hour, I wanted to punch him in the ear. I finally managed to get a pair of antelope late season doe tags, so the boy and I will have some fun at Christmas.

There's no word in the English Language that can accurately describe this process..... though the Germans have come close with the word: Klousterfuuken....

About 20 people at a local Walmart.I was #12. Took about 45 minutes. I got my 2nd deer and 2nd antelope tag. System seemed to work good but same thing ,lot of sold outs and re-neter

Where I was at the problem seemed to be people didn't have their CID with them.. Then the tags they wanted wasn't available they would stand their looking for other tags wtf. So much for prior planning

It was a total joke at wally world. Everything you guys reported: machine down, people not prepared, no hunter ed card, machine printer was jammed, guys shopping for codes, plain and simple it caused the line to be 5 times larger and slower.

I was trying to get an usually easy to get doe tag, 2 guys before bought one, and when it was finally my turn it was sold out.

Total time spent in line, was 65 minutes before 9am, and then 80 minutes in the line. I was 18th in line. At least 5 guys left the line when the tag they were hoping for was sold out.

Had I been serious I should have done it differently.

I thought it was an easy tag, there were near 100 of them on the list for that unit. I figured 18th in line would get it done. But I did not account for the time waste/ time suck that each guy would have with the "code shopping" trying 5+ codes out for each species.

On the plus side, the DOW has traditionally and consistently fubar-ed this license thing for many years, so I really expected some major issue- and should be accustomed to disappointment by now.

Oh well. I tried and failed big time.

So you guys that went to Walmart....were they able to start issuing at 9:00 or was there a 10-15 minute lag until they issued the first tag? The retailer I went to had a lag when they were getting "funny" codes and I'm not sure if it was on the CPW side or the retailer's (Big-5) side.

A guy got the unit 61 1st rifle elk tag from the Fruita Coop this morning. I imagine the snags were more with people than with the system. what's your CID #? etc.

My buddy strolled into the Colorado Springs DOW on his lunch break, no one was in line and he got the last turkey tag for the unit he wanted.

Go figure!

I was at our local Safeway store. It worked right away at 9:00 and the two first guys in line were ready, had their previous license and it took two minutes tops each for them to get their tags. Then the guy in front of me with his xeroxed info for his daughter fouled everything up. The clerk was VERY good, but the dumbass had her enter in 5 different 1-only units for deer and it all had to be donr manually. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten both my cow tag and deer tag had he not fouled me up.

He had a much right as I did to be there in line, I just wish he would have had her CID and it would have been done in 4-5 minutes instead of 20+.

4 hrs and 15mins of a busy signal......

Yep ridiculous !

The Walamart I went to started to type info in about 5 till nine.

I don't understand the CID problem because they only need to swipe your driver's license and all the info comes up.

Of the 20 or so inline,I didn't see one person furnish a CID.

There was an older gent working one of the machines that was typing like me. One finger and he took a while with each one.The gal beside him processed 4-5 tags to his one.

Yes there were a few in line with 4-5 choices that didn't end up with any tag.
My neighbor got the single cow tag that was left over left over for Unit 54 though .Probably it was a turned in tag.

I imagine anyone who went to an agent or CPW office at noon, encountered any lines.

Sorry you guys (and gals and others) had so many problems.

Didn't bother to go as there were 1,238 cow tags for the unit I wanted. Last year there were tags left over into October, which allowed Daughter #1 to get a resident license instead of a non-resident.

saddlesore

Maybe you need CID# to get a license for someone else such as a daughter, son, wife, etc.

made well over 1000 calls between 5 of us, got through once and then got disconnected. Updated the list a little later and found out pretty much every Elk Archery tag was going. Had my hopes up for nothing! If they do this again, i guess I will have to take a vacation to Colorado that week!

No more returned tags will pop up since it's less then 30 days til season???

You can still buy otc archery tags, unless you guys were after something specific

Ya, that's been the plan all along, but was excited to try and pick up one of these limited tags. It's been a learning process as we figured out the area we wanted to hunt (24) was part of the draw a day to late to sign up. Nonetheless still excited for our first Elk hunt, and plan on trying out 34.