I think it is also important to mention that those public land harvest statistics often include people who didn't hunt at all, but for whatever reason bought a tag. I am not sure if Colorado's survey system and statistics pulls that kind of thing out or takes it into account or not.
Looking at things like Idaho's second draw (which only involves redrawing controlled tags that were drawn originally in the initial draw, but the tag was not bought in time) and myself knowing a good number of people who buy elk tags every year just in case they decide to hunt but never do, those statistics can seriously be skewed. That is not to mention quite a few people who just hunt one or two days by just driving around with a case of beer (not that there's anything wrong with that
).
