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NW Colorado elk unit statistics are full of people who..................... shall we say are dreamers?

There are 150 people ahead of you(KC) fighting for 16 tags a year in the preference, plus the hybrid 4. It could take 9 years to get drawn for 201 for someone with 19 points currently.

If it were me, I'd submit an application change and take the 19 points for unit 2 muzzleloader. Buy a muzzloader and have fun over the summer shooting it! AND be out of the depressing CO elk point game.

KC---mailed my moose application today. Unit 28 bull--rifle. Bob

We all put in for an elk Preference Point as 1st choice, Unit 12 cow tag 2nd, which we should all get.

Some/most/all of us will get an OTC bull tag as well.

I put in for a buck tag for Unit 4 or 12, I forget. I'd look at the receipt and figure out which but I'm here and it's back home. Others may put in for a deer tag as well, particularly Daughter #1.

Don't know if anyone is putting in for antelope Preference Points as we all have adequate Preference Points for our needs and we won't be hunting antelope in Colorado this year anyway. Going back to WY with a couple (hopefully) doe tags in my pocket. Others are getting doe tags as well.

I'm sitting in the middle of no-man's land with 10 elk points. I'll probably do preference points this year and think more seriously about some sort of compromise strategy next year or in the coming years, near term.

Burned my deer points a while ago so only 2 points there.

At 56, I'm looking hard at getting out of the points game in CO sooner than later.

bob:

Good Luck

KC

I drew my CO bull moose tag a few years back, after 16 years of accumulation PP and weighted PP's.

I hope to draw a trophy pronghorn unit in SE CO this season, with my 18 pref points it should happen this year. Endless point creep has been my nemesis for years now. Last year with 17 points I thought it was a sure thing, but someone drew one of the hybrid tags, and I ended up the odd man out.

For deer, it will be a late season whitetail tag for my farm in SE CO- draw is usually easy with no PP's.

If the trail cam picks up elk movement on my farm, I will buy an OTC tag.

At age 70, it's time to start burning up those accumulated pref points and go hunting!

You must be applying for one of the same tags in that area that I am that require that many points.

I think that 3 or so years ago either of us could have drawn either of those hunt codes.

I put in for Purgatoire this go round.

Good Luck!

Purgatoire here as well!

Is the computer system just as bad as in years past? I petitioned CO CPW to drop their vendor from Dallas, but my pleas fell on deaf ears.

What Guide in Unit 12 has "Landowner Tags?" Also, Unit 12 has always been a draw for Cow tags. Has that changed? Good luck with your Mulie draw.

Getting together with my 2 sons tomorrow night to submit our Archery either sex elk tag. We each have one preference point which is enough to get us in our unit. My second time and my boys first. Waited a long time for this.

I'm 57 so the idea of collecting points for me is a dream. I want to hunt something every year I have left so I'm not picky. I usually draw the unit I want for something and then hit the leftover/OTC tags that are left. So far it has been successful, and I have never not hunted. For me I just want to fill the freezer and if I get lucky and get a trophy, so much the better.

That's my plan as well. If I hit two points for something other than sheep, something has gone wrong.

Thank you. Semper Fi

You old farts should live a little.

I had two sheep tags= 1 nice ram. A goat tag=not so big, a moose tag=a cow, and a 201 elk tag= a 343 bull.Killed plenty of antelope and mulies

Other than a bear,which I don't want, I can't think of any thing else .I do have a good Whitetail ML buck hunt late this year.

Had I moved to CO earlier in life, maybe but sheep, goats, moose really don't interest me. If I win the lottery....nah still wouldn't spend the money on a govener's tag ,etc. just apply in more states for elk and deer. Besides I have to squirrel money away for tow college degrees, two weddings, that alone will be a small fortune. Hell by the time my daughters are married I'll probably need a walker to get down the isle, I started really late in life.

Better late than never!

And PS, I was just yanking '338's chain.

I knew you were. Good luck in your draws. Hope to see you at Don's place sometime.

Yea,I knew.