Best of luck to you!2 for me!!
15 .. should’ve burnt em years ago.17.. should’ve burnt em years ago.
Same here hard to play point creep!! What unit? You can pm if you’d rather?24. but I've thought they were burnt for the last 10 years so we'll see.
I hear ya as I have 32 points… not sure how the heck I let myself accumulate 2 points
Good luck but you should draw out and have a great hunt!PRC, 66 3rd. chances are good but good usually doesn't work for me. sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown.
That's gotta be tough burning extra points not needed to draw. I hope you have an outstanding hunt!!!I put in with 9 points for a 3rd season tag that was 100% draw with 6 points last year. This year is the only year that the later hunt dates will line up with my vacation time, so I didn’t want to put in for one with iffy odds, especially with point creep.
Did you apply this year?I've had a tough time sitting back and biting my tongue over what the CPW is doing in Colo.
If I had pts to burn I would likely burn them ASAP in Colo. The quality of bucks is bound to continue to drop each and every year and there will be fewer and fewer top end bucks available. Increasing tags and having rifle hunts during prime rutting periods is bound to devastate buck quality in all units for years and years to come. This does nothing more than increase $ for the CPW by selling more tags! This may actually bite the CPW in the butt in the long run if the muley population in Colo doesn't rebound from this devastation! If there is winterkill, drought, poor fawn recruitment, etc on top of the late season dates and increase in tags things could get downright pathetic for an even longer time.
Western Colo can throw to the wind the fantastic B&C record book muley bucks that have been broken the past 20 years! B&C bucks in Western Colo are history if this continues! It is really a shame!
I really believe the CPW is making a poor mistake with their "theory" that harvesting older age class bucks is going to save Colo from CWD/Scrapies! This is a total misconception, poor excuse, and will do nothing to prevent the spread or frequency of the disease. The CWD/scapies prions are already in the soil, have been in many locations in Colo for 15+ years, and will be there for years and years to come.
Mass slaughtering of deer has proven to be ineffective. The fantastic genetics of the top mature bucks that are breeding does that have survived Colo winters and have possibly even build up immunity to CWD/Scrapies the past 20 years may die. It would be interesting to know if there are healthy deer in areas where CWD/scrapies has been around for years and years to see if they have built up resistant alleles? It would be a shame if we are culling large numbers of mature bucks that have somehow built up some sort of resistance to CWD/scrapies. The CPW has no clue to so many questions. They know for a fact that giant culling projects in the past didn't solve anything!
Yep, if you have pts burn them now because it will be a long, long time before the deer rebound with the current 5 year season structure in place.
I've had a tough time sitting back and biting my tongue over what the CPW is doing in Colo.
I agree, They may even make things worseI really believe the CPW is making a poor mistake with their "theory" that harvesting older age class bucks is going to save Colo from CWD/Scrapies! This is a total misconception, poor excuse, and will do nothing to prevent the spread or frequency of the disease. The CWD/scapies prions are already in the soil, have been in many locations in Colo for 15+ years, and will be there for years and years to come.
structure in place.
Thanks GilaJeff!That's gotta be tough burning extra points not needed to draw. I hope you have an outstanding hunt!!!
Did the same thing last year with wife. Burnt a couple extra points, but was garentteed the tag. I retired a year and a half before and had all the time needed. Went to unit the year prior with another MM'er that had tag and scouted unit during the same 3rd season hunt with him and seen some great bucks. Spent the season there even a couple extra days after she tagged out. Had a great time and zero regret on burning extra points that saved up until everything was what we wanted.Thanks GilaJeff!
No big deal on the points. I was never going to draw a premium tag and I wanted to guarantee a tag this year with the favorable hunt date. This year was my only chance the way my work schedule lays out. I’m tempering my expectations on quality of bucks. I’ll be there early to scout and can stay for the whole hunt if need be.
looks like you had a real good shoot in the tundra carp in your avatarBuying another PP to add to the 23 other PP.
How many points?Trying to burn 'em if it doesn't creep on me!
Burnt 21 after waiting years for a ranching for wildlife unit only to have DOW take it off the list. . . Drew third season in CO unit 10. . . Anyone have any intel? Want to hunt it with a bow. Thanks!So how many deer points is everyone trying to burn this year in Colorado?? 23 myself
Unit 10 with a bow during 3rd rifle seems like kind of a huge handicap on yourself, but best of luck to you.Burnt 21 after waiting years for a ranching for wildlife unit only to have DOW take it off the list. . . Drew third season in CO unit 10. . . Anyone have any intel? Want to hunt it with a bow. Thanks!
Good Luck, make it happen!!Burnt all 23 pts finally! 2nd season
10What unit PRC?
Should be a great year! Best of luckMy dad burnt his 17 points on a third season 55 tag.
Nice how many points?Burnt mine, but I was the only one of the 3 of us that drew at our point level.
Burnt mine, but I was the only one of the 3 of us that drew at our point level.
Reverse happened for 2nd season in 66, that tag took 11 points to guarantee a draw last year, 12 this year. Most of that can be explained by them cutting tags. The 3rd season change is baffling. 24 guaranteed it last year, 23 this year.In some units the draw odds went up quite a bit in spite of tag cuts.
Both 663rd and 664th could be had with 22 points this year. they cut 3rd by 10 tags I think and the draw odds went up.
So either point creep is reversing or a lot of people didn't apply this year for some reason. I would have lost a bet on this so I can't speculate as to why this happened.
That sucks! Looks like 10 of 15 drew with 11 pointsA buddy and me tried to burn 11 NR for 2nd season Rifle in 66 but creep got us again.
Ya points went up for 2nd season and went down for 3 rd and 4th seasons compared to last year.That sucks! Looks like 10 of 15 drew with 11 points