2024 Big Game!

[buffalobo]

Depends on which side of preference points you are on.

If I had decades worth of time and money in preference points I'd be pissed.

Unless big game licenses are going unsold to residents each year, twenty five percent is too much for non-resident.

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[TRnCO]

As was stated also in that article is that CDOW should've kept the drawings for elk, antelope, deer as random draws from the beginning, instead of the point system. BUT they didn't and so here we are.
IMO, the other issue that is making things worse is the fact the CDOW keeps making fewer and fewer units as OTC units so now guys that are chasing points and wanting to hunt every year are finding crowding worse and worse in the few remaining OTC units. I suspect eventually all units will be draw only, which it sounds like archery is the first to get there.

[Firehaus]

As was stated also in that article is that CDOW should've kept the drawings for elk, antelope, deer as random draws from the beginning, instead of the point system. BUT they didn't and so here we are.
IMO, the other issue that is making things worse is the fact the CDOW keeps making fewer and fewer units as OTC units so now guys that are chasing points and wanting to hunt every year are finding crowding worse and worse in the few remaining OTC units. I suspect eventually all units will be draw only, which it sounds like archery is the first to get there.

It?s crazy that some archery units are draw, when the later rifle units are otc. Seems backwards to me given archery success rates vs rifle success rates.


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[def90]

It?s crazy that some archery units are draw, when the later rifle units are otc. Seems backwards to me given archery success rates vs rifle success rates.


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Guiding associations make a lot more money guiding rifle hunters than archers so they have a pretty big lobby fighting against rifle otc changes. There is really only one organization that shows up at cpw meetings representing the archery community.

[Firehaus]

Guiding associations make a lot more money guiding rifle hunters than archers so they have a pretty big lobby fighting against rifle otc changes. There is really only one organization that shows up at cpw meetings representing the archery community.

Always follow the money. Thanks for the info.


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