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I called my Republican Senator Cory Gardner's Washington Office and indicated if Pendley is good enough to be inserted short term to head a govt. agency he should immediately have a Senate confirmation hearing and vote. Politics #101 again and yet another anti public lands ploy.

I have only hunted twice muzzle, and both times shot elk with power belts, 348 grain, and both elk went down immediately, lung shots. In my mind, bullet placement be it rifle or muzzle trumps bullet choice. In muzzle I have used 95 grains Triple 7 powder. Also using this load this fall muzzle...

I see all counties in Colorado having the propensity of producing mature bucks. Given that one needs hunt every year here, hunt the terrain you seem to prefer, hunt all day in the field, hunt away from vehicular and OHV traffic, walk in further than other hunters, and look for places other...

FYI- Steve's Meats in Arvada is a quality game processor yet they for the past several year or so have adopted a newer policy of not taking in any boned out big game beyond September. I even talked to them and indicated this policy was not hunter friendly at all since the majority of hunters...

Historically some of the west slope private lands restricted LP vouchers have gone unredeemed.

I believe (but will never buy one) of the 20% of vouchers in the quota of west of I-25 GMUs that qualify for LP, half of them are only good for private lands, and the other half good the entire GMU. Keep in mind though there are also PLO tags, which are in my mind a cousin to LP vouchers but...

One discussion day two was to have the 2nd rifle season with 2 weekends, and the other 1st,3rd, and 4th rifle seasons 5 days incorporating only one weekend. One important side note on the Alternative papers indicated the 4th season as being 'optional'. Sept Commission meeting will then finalize...

Correction. Testified to now with later Nov hunting CP&W should move more buck tags to 2nd and fewer in 3rd.

I testified in the Telluride CP&W Commission meeting that with the 3rd and 4th west slope deer seasons now being pushed later into November CP&W would need move more of these western slope buck tags into the 2nd season and lower the 4th season buck tags so as to not have undue pressure on the...

(1) Drinking beer or for that matter any booze while hunting is a major no-no. Nobody who hunts with me drinks during the day when we hunt. (2) If you were stopped by a warden and didn't have a Habitat Stamp, what would be the odds you would get off with a warning. Try 0%. (3) Cheney would...

One can get permission for free in eastern Colorado, yet one needs come out about 3 months ahead of season, door knock, and present a good image. It is getting tougher, yet alot of farmers fortunately are not addicted to money like others, mostly newer ranchers whom combine with guides and...

Just the USFS acreage proposed to be sold off in Colorado amounts to 30 square miles. That mass of land is larger than the general area I have over the past 5 decades hunted near Gunnison. The sold acreage could be your 'honey hole' hunters, make no mistake about it. Now take the total U.S...

Try these numbers for acreages of just the USFS lands Bush intends to sell: Region 1 Idaho 11,070 Montana 13,948 Total 25,018 Region 2 Colorado 21,572 Wyoming 16,770 S. Dakota 13,961 Nebraska 360 Total 52,672 Region 3 Arizona...

Here is one you might not hear from another hunter yet some Colorado plains units like 107 used to be drawn for 0 pts. You would need come out to Colorado to scout the unit out, yet you could get permission by presenting a respectable image and doing a little homework. Look on the DOW website...

If anyone thinks 20-50,000 acres per per year per just per USFS region being sold sold off is not a big deal, then equate it to erosion, over a number of years, and what do our grandkids have as far as public lands to hunt and fish. This on the heels of sportsmen all across America rising up to...

Txhunter: You are correct, the units now qualifying for the 80/20 will be locked for the next 5 years, no more units added during that timeframe.

I know they approved a White River area high country hunt, this one to commence after the end of bow season so as to not have any conflicts with bow hunters. Another Gunnison area high country hunt is not for 2006 yet may happen in 2007.

COElknut- I am not sure you are correct. I was there at the Commission meeting, yet there was a lot of dialogue. Based on an e-mail I got today representing exactly what you contended, I called DOW information at the headquarters. They said PLO tags are not changed, excepting those affected in...

I forgot to indicate when in Google under Maps, then click on Satellite. You are then on your way. The last factor in using the aerial maps is your actual hunting experience where as we all know, certain places are more 'gamey' than others. I found a remote meadow using aerials I had come...

If one is a fan of aerial maps in hunting (I am pull up Google then click on 'More' then 'maps'. Enter your nearest town then move where you can then navigate directional as needed using identifiable landmarks like rivers, mountains, lakes, riparian wetlands, landscape, etc. Using this method...

Cosa: B.C. years ago went to a 6 point only hunt, as a means to increase mature bulls. Oregon (as I recall) also had positive success in getting more bulls to advance to maturity by simply allowing hunting of spikes. Hunting spikes seems on the surface not to be the answer, yet spikes shot...

One reason limited license allocation is getting more important to everyone, residents and non-residents included, is that in Colorado deer and antelope are 100% limited, and elk units (previously 17% limited) have a green light to at least seek up to 30% limited. Years ago I hunted one unit...

The question is not resident vs. non-residnet, yet how much we allow to go into the general pool of limited licenses in Colorado. A loss one more license within the quota is a loss to all resident and non-resident hunters whom would apply thru the public draw. The truth is the current...

Since 1970 3 decades thinking I could walk a elk down and the last decade sitting. Wisdom comes late to some of us.

Reasonable public access unfortunately today has no teeth for enforcement, yet let me tell you hunters landowner interests say ranches receiving vouchers yet denying public hunter access is (1) not a big problem, and (2) not provable. I believe circumventing public hunter access is a BIG...

Over the past six months or so I have posted a number of comments on Big Game License Allocation, as I had the opportunity to represent Sportmen on the License Allocation Working Group. What I stood for in the end is documented on our Colorado Wildlife Federation website. Hunters the big battle...

Mark: I confirmed the same from National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the bill not being viewed as ever having any legs, in Committee since late September. NWF continues though to monitor this bill, if for no other reason it is technically alive. Tancredo comes from my district in Colorado and I...

Your Dall was one of the most beautiful dalls I have ever seen. My late grand dad shot a 41" curl and a half Dall in the 1950s in the Yukon, and your Dall looks one heck a lot like that ram. We had it remounted 2 years ago and it literally drops jaws amongst sheep enthusiasts. Congrats, in...

Snowman: If you have the names of Colorado landowners whom sell landowner vouchers without access, you have a duty to report them to the Divsion of Wildlife. We in Colorado are tired of landowners circumventing required 'reasonable public access'. So why not help you sport (hunting) and turn...

Buckspy: There is more information than that. Pull up the 'Working Paper' on landowner preference. That is the meat and potatoes of landowner preference in Colorado. Me, I am technologically disadvantaged. I just pulled it up under our Colorado Wildlife Federation website under 'Big Game...

Reading all the posts I find my perspectives in landowner preference similar to so many of yours. This past summer I represented 'Sportsmen' in the Colorado 'License Allocation Working Group'. I encourage you to read what we put together, the facts, the flaws, the inefficencies, etc. of...

Getting back to the subject, I like the term "guide" in high fence hunts, or at least how it is with elk hunts in these shooting shops as I call them. The guide is there for one reason only, to be the sales clerk, quoting what price one bull is from another. I like the term 'management bulls'...

No I have not hunted 144, yet I have hunted a number of eastern Colorado units, and here is my advise: (1) Look for CRP fields, the tall reddish grass fields our federal govt. pays farmers money for not planting crops. Not every CRp field has deer, yet deer love CRP fields, and the deer will...

Fair Chase to me is the animal having the advantage, and hunting in a way as to not bring disrespect to the animal hunted. Obviously high fence hunts (at least here in Colorado) and their one day country club, the guide is there to quote prices, represents the bottom fishers of hunting image and...

Greybeard: You are correct about Unit 40 also being a 'surplus bull' unit too. Please do convey to the Colorado Wildlife Commission your perspectives on these 'pilots'. The intial pilots proposed were reasonable, in our estimation. The expansions of those though, especially the elk pilots, is...

Public Hunters might want to weigh in their opinions on 3 new developing 'pilot' programs impacting limited big game licenses in Colorado. These 'pilots' as initially proposed were limited to an (a) eastern Colorado component impacting only antelope tags whereby landowners would be given an...

It is always the right idea to dress an animal near, at, or after dark, so as to cool off the animal, and prevent gas buildup which can spread thru the meat. My side story though is this fall when guided by Cree Indians on Moose in Manitoba I shot a nice bull moose at 7:30 P.M., in a pond, half...

NeverbeenonaATV: P.S. - Send me your address at my work e-mailaddress and I will send you a color aerial map of Tomichi Dome, plus I can get you a topo of that area from the Denver Federal Center which will show you the roads nearby, plus the areas I would focus on if I were you. This may cost...

You will do fine. Given your propensity to hunt on foot, I feel confident you will get a very nice buck. Actually both sides of Tomichi Dome (east and west) are excellent habitat for deer and elk. This is how I hunt for what it is worth. Get to where you can glass open sage into aspens or...

Some words of advice for 551 hunting this season. 1. The deer hunting should be excellent. Leave the ATV in your drive way though, as this country is not(thank god)as ATV road ladden as other parts of Colorado. Once you understand that, and if you don't mind walking, I would recommend...