Chacoblue777
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Hi all!
Hope everyone is having a great season. I purchased a third season LO voucher this year. It was a new unit for me, and enjoy d getting to see, and learn new country. We filled one of two tags, -!: it was a struggle to do that, as hunting conditions were tough this year due to hot, dry weather, slow migration, lots of hunting pressure, and a slow rut. Was great to be out hunting though.
I was hoping to hear some thoughts and opinions from other forum members regarding the LO program. The LO voucher I purchased was from a large, very large piece of huntable property. In fact they own a whole side of a huge mountain range, and the property receives a few dozen vouchers based on the big piece of property.
Having purchased multiple vouchers in the past, I assumed that the voucher would allow me to hunt the property. After a couple days of hunting public, I contacted the property manager to ask for directions to the property and asking if I could hunt in there. I was informed that he cannot allow his "voucher guys" to hunt the property as he has high paying clients he guides on the property each year, and it wouldn't be fair to them if the "voucher guys" were in there hunting. He did say that I could access and hunt a small chunk of property that was basically landlocked by public, and wasn't very good hunting. This piece of property MAY have been 50 acres. The other property was thousands and thousands of acres.
I chose not to get into a debate with the property manager, as I wanted to enjoy my hunt and spend my time finding bucks while I could. I ended up focusing and hunting public ground.
If the LO program rules state that the owner only needs to allow minimal minimal access to a few acres, and can block the better and bigger parts of the property, then I am fine with the response I received. However, if a landowner voucher is meant to entitle a hunter to access the entire property, then I feel I was wronged a bit.
It seems to me that if someone had enough property to qualify for 25-30 landowner vouchers, then the program is meant to allow hunting on that much property. If an owner is only going to allow hunting on minimal acreage of land, then the landowner should only qualify for the number of vouchers based on the amount of land he is going to allow those "voucher guys" to hunt. Receiveing large quantities of vouhers based on huge land ownership and then pushing them all to public seems to tip the balance in my opinion and I am guessing is not how the program was intended to work.
Just curious about your thoughts and if anyone knows the details regarding the CO landowner voucher program and rules.
Kind regards
Hope everyone is having a great season. I purchased a third season LO voucher this year. It was a new unit for me, and enjoy d getting to see, and learn new country. We filled one of two tags, -!: it was a struggle to do that, as hunting conditions were tough this year due to hot, dry weather, slow migration, lots of hunting pressure, and a slow rut. Was great to be out hunting though.
I was hoping to hear some thoughts and opinions from other forum members regarding the LO program. The LO voucher I purchased was from a large, very large piece of huntable property. In fact they own a whole side of a huge mountain range, and the property receives a few dozen vouchers based on the big piece of property.
Having purchased multiple vouchers in the past, I assumed that the voucher would allow me to hunt the property. After a couple days of hunting public, I contacted the property manager to ask for directions to the property and asking if I could hunt in there. I was informed that he cannot allow his "voucher guys" to hunt the property as he has high paying clients he guides on the property each year, and it wouldn't be fair to them if the "voucher guys" were in there hunting. He did say that I could access and hunt a small chunk of property that was basically landlocked by public, and wasn't very good hunting. This piece of property MAY have been 50 acres. The other property was thousands and thousands of acres.
I chose not to get into a debate with the property manager, as I wanted to enjoy my hunt and spend my time finding bucks while I could. I ended up focusing and hunting public ground.
If the LO program rules state that the owner only needs to allow minimal minimal access to a few acres, and can block the better and bigger parts of the property, then I am fine with the response I received. However, if a landowner voucher is meant to entitle a hunter to access the entire property, then I feel I was wronged a bit.
It seems to me that if someone had enough property to qualify for 25-30 landowner vouchers, then the program is meant to allow hunting on that much property. If an owner is only going to allow hunting on minimal acreage of land, then the landowner should only qualify for the number of vouchers based on the amount of land he is going to allow those "voucher guys" to hunt. Receiveing large quantities of vouhers based on huge land ownership and then pushing them all to public seems to tip the balance in my opinion and I am guessing is not how the program was intended to work.
Just curious about your thoughts and if anyone knows the details regarding the CO landowner voucher program and rules.
Kind regards