Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting haven’t elk hunted colorado for a while - fees went up

Feel free to move here and pay $700 annual vehicle registration, exorbitant taxes, deal with yuppie/tourist mountain traffic every day, building codes up the wazoo, construction costs 3x or more of nearby states, family homes starting at $600,000, libtard takeover of our government, and constantly fighting for our gun laws. Come on over! You'll save $650 on your elk tag.

I probably save enough on vehicle registration fees to cover NR tags! LOL! Everything else you listed except yuppie tourists sounds just like here......sadly.

Thanks to the State of Colorado for the opportunity to hunt there the past 15 years. I’d rather hunt there where there are lots of elk instead of hunters outnumbering the elk like WA.

Happy Trails

Now they cut the 2nd and 3rd elk season to 7 days from 9 starting in 2020.Typical govt. Pay more get less

$700 annual vehicle registration? My 3/4 ton cost $75.75 to renew last year.

I think my permenant truck registration ran about 130 dollars.

Yes sir. It's prorated based on GVW and age of vehicle. Brand new I think I paid almost $1000/yr and it goes down about $100/year. And out of state people want to bitch about the "discount" we get on hunting tags. Colorado taxes the $hit out of it's residents.

What's interesting though is that the NR bear tag went down to $100 (from $350). They raised the anterless elk but lowered the bear by a bunch. Guess they are wanting the bears thinned out.

Colorado is just following the Liberal Taxocrat COW Model.

California, Oregon, Washington.....

Yes, Yes, Yes..... tags cost money..... funny thing is... they sell out every year... so, they must not be too expensive...

If you think that tag cost too much for admission to a week's worth of entertainment.... Maybe you should try spending your next vacation at Disney World... spend a whole week at Disney World and see how much that would cost you... surly i would be far more entertaining.... Or, maybe a cruise ship... a week on a cruise ship is maybe more your style ? A cruise ship is a lot more entertaining than a mountain covered Bark Beetle killed pine falling at random....

Westill have family farm land back in Iowa where I grew up. As a kid I hunted small game extensively - rabbits, squirrels and pheasants. A non-resident license used to cost $80 and I refused to pay it even though I would have enjoyed pheasant hunting on the family (and friends) lands during my trips back. Now if I go back the cost is $144 for a license and habitat fee. Haven't hunted Iowa since I left in the late 70's because the license cost was too high for the reward.

I would gladly pay much more than that to hunt moose or big bears or elk or buffalo as a non-resident. In 1981, though, I made a conscious decision to move to Colorado so I could hunt elk here. Don't really have any desire to hunt big bears or buffalo but might do an Alaska moose some day.If that day comes, I expect the non-resident license cost to equal a new car payment or more but still be a relatively small part of the overall cost of the hunt.

Non-residents who bitch about license costs are really saying they can't easily afford it or they consider the reward (the hunt, since many will go home empty handed) insufficient. In either case there is an easy answer - don't buy a license.

It is not the cost of the tag, it is what CPW does with it. Even before the increase, Colorado took in more money than any other two sates combined and we got less for it.Darn little in the way of positive big game management. Higher salaries, more administrators, bigger, fancier trucks.Everyone they employee has to have biology degree or such when all they do is drive around and check licenses.

They need to get out of the real estate and lake ownership business and separate Parks from Wildlife. Nonresidents don't have a clue on what goes on the other 50 weeks of the year. Now we have a liberal governor who is the one that appoints the Wildlife Commission and a liberal legislature that backs him up.Those are the ones who control our Wildlife.

So I guess it is wrong to question the powers to be and just suck it up and pay what they ask. Maybe that is what Wisconsinites do, but it isn't what we Coloradans do.

I don't mind paying the non-resident tag price, it is what it is. Pay and hunt or don't pay and stay home. What burns my a$$ is hearing Colorado residents complain about us non-residents who fund their game department!

So Saddlesore, how much influence do NR ‘s have over your libtards running the state government and ultimately th CPW Commission? What would you suggest short of a firing squad? Happy Trails

Whooo, Whooo… hold on now... If yo don't like what the DOW in your state is doing that is something for you to fix... remember... I'm the nonresident... and I don't vote in your state... that is on you...

As the nonresident.... "sucking it up.. " as you call it... is what I do... because... again... I'm the non resident. And for the record, I'm happy with the way things run in my state as far as the Fish and Game (we call it the DNR) department goes.

I played this game awhile ago saddlesore, I was called a socialist. Tryin to explain it to em is a lesson in futility.

I have no problem paying the price for the cow tag if drawn but requiring you to buy a tag you will never use is sad.

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Whooo, Whooo… hold on now... If yo don't like what the DOW in your state is doing that is something for you to fix... remember... I'm the nonresident... and I don't vote in your state... that is on you...

As the nonresident.... "sucking it up.. " as you call it... is what I do... because... again... I'm the non resident. And for the record, I'm happy with the way things run in my state as far as the Fish and Game (we call it the DNR) department goes. [/quote]

Here is the problem. Boulder and Denver, both liberal cities have more population than the rest of the state combined and their votes put these guys in control. Couple that with the people that don't vote ( Yes many conservatives) and this is what happens.This openly gay governor we have came from California and had changed his name after a sexual accusation was fild against him. The liberals took him in and there we have it.

Nonresidents will pay any price the CPW charges because they know they are only here for a week or so and can buy an elk tag OTC. We as residents though have to live with this crap.

Very little, unless they all decide to hunt elsewhere,which isn't likely to happen. This whole thing is really because Republican conservatives failed to get out and vote in the past state election.We are trying a recall of the governor , but have only 60 days to get 600,000 signatures. However, that won't get the libitards out of our Senate and House . Unless a whole of of voters awaken, I am afraid we will never see a Republican governor or Republican controlled legislature in Colorado again.

These same people are also in favor of wolf reintroduction here and that will undoubtedly be on the next ballot as a referendum and just like steel leg hold traps and the ban spring bear hunting came about.When that comes about, in a few years, the nonresidents will be effected too because the elk herd numbers will plummet as they did in WY,ID, and MT

Here is the problem. Boulder and Denver, both liberal cities have more population than the rest of the state combined and their votes put these guys in control. Couple that with the people that don't vote ( Yes many conservatives) and this is what happens.This openly gay governor we have came from California and had changed his name after a sexual accusation was fild against him. The liberals took him in and there we have it.

Nonresidents will pay any price the CPW charges because they know they are only here for a week or so and can buy an elk tag OTC. We as residents though have to live with this crap.
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We have the same problem in Wisconsin…. A pile of democrats in Milwaukee and Madison voted in a democratic governor. There is no end to the ways he wants to spend my tax dollars. All I can do about it is vote... and get every one I know out to vote also.... I have the same pain you have... Your pain is a lot worse than mine for sure. Hang in there... the pendgelm will swing.

The liberal takeover of state politics is the same everywhere. Homos, libs, illegals, immigrants, and stupid white people with a guilt complex inhabit the large cities and impose their will on the rest of us and even against sound science of the F&G, DNR, etc. and disregard management in lieu of their leftist politics. Same sad story here in Washington. The initiative/ referendum process has transformed our representative government into a mob rule banana republic.