Hunting Questions (Coyote)

Not sure I follow you hunter, the regs are quite clear:

"Any person may take coyotes with an unfilled big game license in the same unit and season and by the same manner of take."

So, it is legal to shoot coyotes with your big game rifle (anything over .24 caliber), as long as you have an unfilled big game license in the same unit.

However the point to my post was, why couldnt the DOWGM explain the rules to me instead of dismiss me! He has no business writing tickets or potentially arresting people if he doesnt know the rules. A GM wrote a ticket and confiscated meat from someone camped next to me cause they were in "wrong unit". The guy had to fight it in court and was exonerated, however it still ruined his hunt, plus he lost the elk meat!

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Originally Posted by HunterCO

If you hunt small game during big game season you can be charged with poaching if you use a rifle caliber that is allowed for big game. If you do not have a big game tag never use a rifle for small game that is legal to use for big game. This only applies during big game season also handguns are excluded from this regulation.

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I dont know what side of I-25 he is on, but that only applies west of the Interstate. we had to point that out to a dow officer one time, as we told him to go away, and stop ruining our hunt.

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Originally Posted by car-15

I dont know what side of I-25 he is on, but that only applies west of the Interstate. we had to point that out to a dow officer one time, as we told him to go away, and stop ruining our hunt.

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You are correct it has been a long time since I read the reg. either it has been changed or I simply did not remember that detail.

there is also a landowner exemption to allow for shooting coyotes from your vehicle in colorado - a little known reg - I got in to it with my hunter ed instructor over this one

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Originally Posted by wolffo

there is also a landowner exemption to allow for shooting coyotes from your vehicle in colorado - a little known reg - I got in to it with my hunter ed instructor over this one

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iirc you have to apply for that exemption, and prove need, and it is a free 60 day permit, I have to find the copy of that reg. the dow guy gave to me, back when we looked into it.

it not detailed in the regular small game booklet, its on line though in the full regs download

Specifically the law about hunting small game during big game season with a big game legal rifle applies west of I25.

From the brochure:

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It is illegal to hunt game birds, small game mammals or furbearers with
a centerfire rifle larger than .23 caliber during regular rifle deer and elk seasons W of I-25, without an unfilled deer or elk license for the season. A
small game license is required.

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