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So when dealing with the state of Colorado, best you read the WHOLE thing.
I have always hunted Colorado, so I always have had a license, small game, deer elk something. My wife & sons always had a small game as well.

This last year I had a small game in Colo & Utah, but got my wife & son only Utah small game , & nether drew a Colorado big game tag in 2013....So I find I paid a preference point fee for each tag they did not draw this year 2014. That is to say the state kept ($30 for deer, $30 for antelope, $40 for elk) they did this to my son & to my wife, because we didn't buy $21 small game lic. last year :doh: read the fine print.

I have never run into this before because I had always gotten them small game Lic. :surrender:

$100 each & they get to hunt.....nothing
 
After reading your post I thought no they can't do that. So got the catalog out and there it is at the top of page 2.

So your family is being taxed for not hunting last year. And they have the gall to say " only $30 ". Unbelievable. If Hinkenlooper is re-elected......Sorry state
 
You know if my wife & son had applied for a unit that took 18 points & they had 3, I could see DOW charging (maybe). But every tag for both my wife & son were within what it took last year to get that tag!!

We were trying to get tags NOTpoints!


So if there are left over tags my wife or son want, you think DOW will take their $1 refund check they sent us as payment :cursing:
 
"Load of manure" comes to mind...were it moi, I'd feel entitled to plink any just over the roadside fence critter I saw this year! :td:
 
Well my hope is that those who read this won't have this happen to them. I also hope this info will be reposted in other places, so other hunters can see it.

In short I hope I cost Colorado THOUSANDS!!

It will make me feel better knowing it cost them a dollar (or more) to take my dime.
 
I put a gripe on here a while back. My brother and I have the same problem with them. We both have preference points in the upper teens. On top of having to send them 600 and some odd dollars they keep 43 of it just for the privilege of turning in for a hunt. We live in north ga so we're not going to be "in the area" to hunt small game. They are really making it hard for the working man to hunt there. We've skipped turning in the last two years but we'll have to turn in next year or we'll lose our points. :doh:
 
I miss the wilderness areas I used to hunt in Colorado. Some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. Many of the people and the politics there are destroying what was a great state. :shake:
 
pab1 said:
I miss the wilderness areas I used to hunt in Colorado. Some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. Many of the people and the politics there are destroying what was a great state. :shake:

I agree. I used to live and guide there many moons and gray hairs ago.

Was a great place to hunt is correct. Was being the key word.
 
yep. When I am done with my career here (12 more years) I am getting the hell out and back to Michigan where I belong.
 
I'll bet the Div of Wildlife needed some extra cash to visit a pot house! I use to hunt Colorado, but will not be returning. they have put the lic fees way too high.
 
Sorry to hear about this, but sounds like a lot of State's rules in that they are getting so complicated it's hard to know for sure what's going on anymore.

To fish in Minnesota you'd better be carrying the DNR book along with you as all different lakes have different rules on what fish you can keep, slot lengths, etc. You can't move from one lake to another and take your bait fish. Have to throw them away...a zebra mussel might be in there somewhere. When they raised all the fishing license fees a couple years ago I stopped buying. I was a casual fisherman and don't need the headache.

I used to hunt Iowa until they went insane...cost over $ 600 in licenses and fees for a non-resident whitetail deer license there..even for a doe-only license!

And then game departments wonder why hunter numbers are decreasing. Gee...let me think.....
 
I will be Elk hunting in Colorado next year to get rid of some smoke pole points. And I also don't plan to hunt there after that. It was a nice state but is getting like calif. :( I guess it is still nice country but not nice other wise. Larry
 
Sorry about your family getting shafted by the state of Utah, Sean. Unfortunately, most managers of these state game departments would prefer that no animals were killed by hunters at all, and have the attitude that if they have to allow it to continue, ( for now ) then by God it's gonna' cost 'em. And that's just for the resident hunters; the out of staters are even juicier cash cows. A lot of my federal tax money goes to support federal lands and game populations in states I don't even live in, so why should I or anyone have to pay more than a minimal premium for an out of state tag?
 
There was some hope, Sean, that there would be a reduction in hunters and requests for licenses due to a Colorado boycott (the magazine limit issue). It seems, though, that Colorado remains a big draw for hunters and the boycott never materialized. This was in a newspaper article last year, Nov. 11, 2013:
""Through the main big game seasons, we were up about 5,000 licenses over last year at this time," said Randy Hampton, spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. "Just for deer and elk, we were up by about 6,000. Bear licenses sold were up about 1,400. We sold about 2,800 fewer pronghorn licenses, which brought the overall big game numbers down, but that was primarily because we reduced the quota.""
So it looks like the arcane and complex rules are not scaring away hunters. There is no incentive to change the rules and regs when the demand for licenses keeps on increasing.
Ron
 
I'd like to see what they spent on Adds before & after. I don't ever remember hearing an add in Colorado to "hunt Colorado". After the boycott talk there's been adds aplenty. I'm guessing they have paid a sharp price to get those 5000 extra.
 
My wife got screwd out of hunting this year because this year they made you get a habitat stamp before applying for big game before the April deadline, I never had to do this before( she gets her fishing tag and habitat stamp in june as the flyfishing heats up) so she didn't get tags or pref points. I can't stand the greedy bastards!
:bull:
 
It's been a few years since I was out there,DNR gave me no problems but the UTES,,well thats a different story :cursing:
 
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