Colorado 3rd Season Deer with 6 Points for NR

cem3434

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We have decided that we are hunting Colorado this year for deer after really enjoying our antelope hunt in Wyoming last year. I'm not sure what to do, since we (my cousin and myself) have just been building points for the last several years. Now that I have done some research, I'm kind of bummed that we didn't burn our points a couple of years ago where we could be drawing our 2nd or 3rd tag by now. Anyways, we want to hunt 3rd season and we are considering Unit 3 or 4 which should be 100% draws or possibly Unit 5 if the point creep doesn't catch us. We are open to other units as well or any advice you guys have on the units we are considering. Feel free to PM me with any information you're willing to share and thanks in advance.
 
I forgot to add that we are more into the opportunity to hunt rather than the trophy quality as we have never considered ourselves trophy hunters. We would rather hunt every couple of years and truly learn a unit rather than build 20 points for an OIL type hunt. We are perfectly content harvesting 140"-150" class bucks and having a great adventure versus holding out for a trophy class muley and eating our tags.
 
Where are you coming from? can you scout for access? You'll be trying to hunt around the Three Forks ranch in 5, could be good or bad, limited public land on winter range. 4 has more public land. 3 would be more of a flat land hunt. For 6 points, I would look at a 4th season hunt this year with how early 3rd season is, but it depends on whether you would truly hunt a full 9 day third season, and if so, do 3rd. If you're only hunting 5 days, hunt 4th if you can draw.
 
We are coming from Washington, so most of our scouting will be Google Maps, onXmaps and internet research. We will likely make at least one long weekend trip to scout before the season opens, but it would be 2 months before the 3rd season opens.

I will be pheasants hunting in SD 10/30 through 11/3, so we would only be hunting the last week of the 3rd season. I will also look into 4th season hunts because I always thought you needed at least twice as many points as what we have to draw any of them with public access, thus the reason we were focusing on 3rd season. Thanks for the advice.
 

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