2023 Big Game

[TRnCO]

So you're saying that Hollohas was seeing large dog tracks after all?

Wolves can cover a lot of distance. After all, that's how they've gotten here to start with.

[hollohas]

It's cool. If a couple people haven't seen any sign, it means the other people who have seen sign are wrong.

I've hunted there for 15 years, covered hundreds of miles bushwhacking on foot during that time and am super familiar with the animals there...but they haven't seen it with their own eyes so who's to believe my lying eyes.

Remember when Colorado DOW swore up and down there were no wolves in Colorado. Despite the fact a wolf collared in Wyoming in Jan 2014 was seen at the Grand Canyon later in 2014 and then killed by a hunter in Utah in late 2014?

But the confirmed wolves in Routt and Jackson county certainly wouldn't move a few miles further south. And they're surely the ONLY wolves in this state.

[def90]

It's cool. If a couple people haven't seen any sign, it means the other people who have seen sign are wrong.

I've hunted there for 15 years, covered hundreds of miles bushwhacking on foot during that time and am super familiar with the animals there...but they haven't seen it with their own eyes so who's to believe my lying eyes.

Remember when Colorado DOW swore up and down there were no wolves in Colorado. Despite the fact a wolf collared in Wyoming in Jan 2014 was seen at the Grand Canyon later in 2014 and then killed by a hunter in Utah in late 2014?

But the confirmed wolves in Routt and Jackson county certainly wouldn't move a few miles further south. And they're surely the ONLY wolves in this state.

CPW isn't stupid and has always known where and when there have been wolves in CO. They couldn't declare it to be true becasue that would have opened a shit storm of having to comply with the ESA, establish a new wolf biologist position, create a management plan, along with creating every other ecological impact plans required around the ESA. Then there would be issues regarding having an ESA animal in areas that are heavily developed as far as people having to produce impact statements for building evrything from a dirt road to a home to a commercial property. Then they would have to figure out how to find all of that.

There's a reason why state game agencies play the game of "there aren't any mountain lions in this state' game.

[Hummer]

Nope, with the CWD, Wolves and winter kill, they paint a bleak picture for the NW corner. But then, we will see.

Up to 3/6 for Moose, don't know how many it takes to get drawn in 7 for a cow.

Won't get Elk or Pronghorn, boys will likely get Late Elk and the younger and I might get a deer tag. Otherwise, I guess Archery gets used again.

A bleak picture it is. CPW released the latest license cuts in NW CO. https://coloradooutdoorsmag.com/2023...cense-impacts/

These are the units I hunt for cow and bull, bear, pronghorn, and usually buck or doe,. I was sure to draw a pronghorn buck tag but now hope I don't given the poor numbers and because my unit is sparce of animals anyway. Maybe next year will be better and I should draw a buck tag then. If I don't draw a cow tag in 23-24, not sure where I'll hunt bull but I will hunt elk somewhere without fail.

[whitewalrus]

Big game results coming out starting today.

Just got my moose results - unsuccessful and a preference point.


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[CS1983]

I drew bear archery. I guess today is Moose and Bear results?

Will be interesting to see what the rest of the week brings.

[Hummer]

I received notice that I didn't draw a cow moose license, along with a $58 bill.

Our old friend Irving, drew a muzzleloader cow moose tag in area 43! Irving helped me with my 2018 bull, so I want to be there for him when he gets one down.