Nows your chance guys to take part and let your voice be heard in regard to the current Colo landowner vouncher program. If you are like me you believe this system is a big scam! Every big game tag that goes into this program is 1 less tag available to the public in the draw.
If you are tired of "tag pimps" selling tags for high dollar it's your time to complain and try to change this system. Currently hunters that purchase landowner vouchers can buy tags each year PLUS gain pref pts each year. The "average Joe" has to wait in line for tags in the drawing and it is getting tougher and tougher to draw high demand tags. Many units take 5 to 15+ years to draw. If you are like me, it is upsetting knowing tags are being taken away from the "average joe" and LO voucher guys currently get around the pref pt system by purchasing high demand tags every year.
What is even more upsetting is that landowner voucher hunters can purchase tags each year PLUS gain pref pts. I believe landowner voucher guys should at least burn their pts every year they buy LO vouchers.
Landowner vouchers can be used to hunt both public and private land in the unit they are issued. I really don't believe it is fair that LO tags should be available to hunt public land. The CDOW has been searching for ways to relieve hunting pressure on public land in Colorado and if voucher holders were only permitted to hunt private land this would relieve some of this pressure. I also don't think it is fair that LO hunters can hunt public land when they didn't wait in line for these tags like all the other public draw hunters. LO vouchers should be compensation to a rancher for wildlife on his own property....I am pretty sure that is what these tags were originally intended for?
I can understand landowner vouchers being available directly to landowners and their immediate family so they can hunt their own property. If LO vouchers were only available to family this would elieviate many of the problems with high dollar tag sales, lack of access issues to private land in which the tag was intended, tag pimp problems, and other issues.
Does any of this seem fair? If you believe the Colo LO voucher system is a joke and needs to be changed now is your chance to let the CDOW know. You can email, phone, attend a meeting etc. Make certain to clearly and rationally explain your recommendations for change. If enough of us are willing to do this the system will likely change for the better of everyone rather than the few that can afford high demand and high dollar LO vouchers!
Here is a website to get started: http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/BigGame/LandownerVoucherReviewCommittee/
If you are tired of "tag pimps" selling tags for high dollar it's your time to complain and try to change this system. Currently hunters that purchase landowner vouchers can buy tags each year PLUS gain pref pts each year. The "average Joe" has to wait in line for tags in the drawing and it is getting tougher and tougher to draw high demand tags. Many units take 5 to 15+ years to draw. If you are like me, it is upsetting knowing tags are being taken away from the "average joe" and LO voucher guys currently get around the pref pt system by purchasing high demand tags every year.
What is even more upsetting is that landowner voucher hunters can purchase tags each year PLUS gain pref pts. I believe landowner voucher guys should at least burn their pts every year they buy LO vouchers.
Landowner vouchers can be used to hunt both public and private land in the unit they are issued. I really don't believe it is fair that LO tags should be available to hunt public land. The CDOW has been searching for ways to relieve hunting pressure on public land in Colorado and if voucher holders were only permitted to hunt private land this would relieve some of this pressure. I also don't think it is fair that LO hunters can hunt public land when they didn't wait in line for these tags like all the other public draw hunters. LO vouchers should be compensation to a rancher for wildlife on his own property....I am pretty sure that is what these tags were originally intended for?
I can understand landowner vouchers being available directly to landowners and their immediate family so they can hunt their own property. If LO vouchers were only available to family this would elieviate many of the problems with high dollar tag sales, lack of access issues to private land in which the tag was intended, tag pimp problems, and other issues.
Does any of this seem fair? If you believe the Colo LO voucher system is a joke and needs to be changed now is your chance to let the CDOW know. You can email, phone, attend a meeting etc. Make certain to clearly and rationally explain your recommendations for change. If enough of us are willing to do this the system will likely change for the better of everyone rather than the few that can afford high demand and high dollar LO vouchers!
Here is a website to get started: http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/BigGame/LandownerVoucherReviewCommittee/