Point banking in CO? How does it work?

kurtski25 · Jan 25, 2006

I've copied this exerpt from the License Allocation Committee website in Colorado...
Finally, for those hunters who have accumulated preference points and are willing to use a portion of them on a
quality hunt requiring fewer points, a one-time preference point banking regulation has been added which will
allow, during the 2006 season only, the opportunity for a hunter to use a portion of his/her preference points in
drawing a license while retaining the remainder.

So my question is how does it work? If there are say 10 non-res tags available and one person uses 10 of his/her pref points to draw, two people use 5 points, but the bulk of the tags are allocated to folks with only 3-4 pref points do you lose all of your points if you tried to draw with 8 because somebody used 10? OR do they look at the average somehow and determine that most of the folks used only 3-4 points to draw and the person with 8 points will get to keep say 4 of his points for the following year?
Did anyone get that?
Any help appreciated.

_droptine_ · Jan 25, 2006

The way that I understand it, in the situation you described, you would be charged 3, 4, 5 or 6 points. Whatever is the lowest pool that you would qualify for in which everyone who applied got a tag. I have heard that the Colorado DOW was going to charge an extra point for those were using point banking. If so, it would be what ever that lowest point pool you qualified for plus one.

I'll admit that I don't have anymore info on the extra point thing other than what I have seen on this site or bowsite.

But the bottom line, based on how I understand it is that no, you wouldn't loose all of your points.

txhunter58 · Jan 25, 2006

I had not heard the deal of an extra point being taken. However, barring that, the way I understood it was if you have 10 points, and everyone with 3 points drew, it would only use 3 points. Don't see how they could do it any other way without it being very confusing. But that has not stopped them in the past!

It will also make this years drawing VERY hard to figure.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

_droptine_ · Jan 25, 2006

Here is the thread where I read about the DOW taking another point for points banking.
( http://www.bowsite.com/bowsite/tf/regional/thread.cfm?threadid=120859&MESSAGES=40&state=CO#1158899 )

kurtski25 · Jan 26, 2006

Thanks for the replies and I guess we'll have to see how this works out.
It will be interesting trying to understand where everyone will apply this year!
Kurt

Founder · Jan 26, 2006

With all the new 4th season hunts and this points banking deal, it will definitely change things up a bit. Predicting how many points any hunt will take this year is tough.

Those 4th season hunts should draw a lot of the guys with 9+ points, which should take some pressure off the hunts that took 9 points last year. Such as in th Gunnison Basin.

Who knows what this banking deal will do?????

Brian Latturner
MonsterMuleys.com