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Yep it’s a big contributor to point creep. I’m on a elk waiting period but I would be all in on 75/25 or 80/20

They can give away 200 of our le tags at the expo. Take some from that pool for coyote killers. I like it.

Hard to tell people with 30 points that they are getting phased out. I agree though the point system is a problem. I think small changes here and there could help improve I just don’t know if it’s too late.

Need to give a better percentage to max point holders. The 50/50 split is cool but it’s causing point creep. (I have 0 resident bonus points btw) drew an elk tag with 18 points and last year got an antelope tag with 0. Which is nice but the people with 5-8 points should have got that tag and...

Well that’s stupid. Thanks for the reply

So it stayed as is or they eliminated that opportunity ?

How about a cow during your buck or bull season? Can’t find where they talked about that.

Hopefully. Maybe they can use some money from all the unlimited elk tags they are going to sell next year to develop some software for this?

Plus the original person doesn’t get a point for that year so it puts them a year behind, just like it is now when you turn in a tag.

Why wouldn’t it if you buy or accept a tag you use points

Has there been discussions on why Utah doesn’t reissue surrendered general season deer tags? Seems crazy to me that the tags are not re-sold when someone turns them back in. To me, even if the number is small (200,500,1000?), if the tags were sold or offered to the next person in line it would...

Thanks for the information. How can I find out who is on the committee? How was it formed? Thanks

What about all the units that aren’t private? A lot of units down south are mostly forest. Giving the flexibility to hunt elk during other hunts allows for higher success rates and fills those tags. It also spreads people out. I understand change is the only thing that’s consistent but this one...

You are on the committee right? Serious question, why change the hunting a late season cow during a general season tag like deer or spike elk? This has provided extra opportunity and spreads people out. Two things the proposal aims to do.

Last year was so dry, I was up there Labor Day and it was pushing 90 on the mountain. Hardly any grass in the meadows. If you do draw I hope the weather is better. Archery is tough, lots of people on the mountain deer hunting, archery spike, and bear hunting. We were parked opening morning...

Great buck! Thanks for posting

I can see both sides of the argument. Me personally I don’t have a problem with cows on public land except one senerio that we’ve faced the past couple years. The particular unit I hunt I didn’t draw a cow elk tag, that’s fine. Then they decided that we were in a severe drought and sold an extra...

Good thread! I have 3 young daughters, gives me hope that I’ll get them out hunting with me. My wife likes to hunt but the quartering stuff is still too much for her.

Ke Keep us updated, this is the tag I’ve been trying to draw, have 12pts NR so one year in the next decade I might draw. Best of luck, hope you kill a giant.

Good for you. I’m just giving a suggestion to shorten waiting periods

That’s not the point, its the fact that with all tags the points are going up and up each year. I think it awesome that everyone has a chance but think the split is a bit off and if they lowered it it would lower the overall time it takes to draw a tag for all seasons. It’s cool that a first...

It makes elk and deer tags once in a lifetime as point creep goes up and up. Some tags are 25 points to draw, wait a quarter century to hunt...

Nice thing with Colorado is you pretty much know when you’re going to draw, bad thing is you know you don’t have a chance unless you have the points. It just seems ridiculous to me the 50 percent of the tags go to people that haven’t been putting in for decades. I have 18 pts for elk and people...

Some people prefer to hunt with a bow maybe

The real issue is the 50/50 split between bonus and random tags. Change it to 75 bonus and 25 percent random. Then you could drop the waiting period to 2 years. Just a thought it would help with point creep but still give everyone a chance.

So true, if we have a good winter there might be one buck left. Haha, I’m usually positive but the last 3 years have been tough.

You didn’t miss anything on Dutton, very few deer.

Awesome bull, a memory you will have forever. Congrats!

Thanks to everyone that gave advice. We ended up filling all three tags. The goal was to see a lot of deer and feel like there was a chance for a big one. I shot mine (middle) Friday night when it was just me and my dad, he was so heavy we couldn’t lift him in the truck. Thanks to the guys from...

Couple smaller bucks we saw

Just got home from the first trip, hunted Sat-Mon. Saw some deer, about 15 bucks biggest was a 20-22” 4pt that didn’t give us much of a look opening morning. Lots of 2pts and does and tons of people. Most of Sunday it was windy and snowing. Today was around 0 degrees a lot of the deer we saw In...

That’s a nice buck! Good to hear some deer are starting to move in. 1 week and we’re heading out, starting to get exciting!

Thank you so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it. We’re just now planning when we want to be there. Leaning towards opening weekend and then coming back wed-sun second weekend. Fingers crossed we see some deer, either way it will be a fun trip with the family.

Driving home from our first scouting trip. We drove around the oil springs wilderness area, rabbit mountain, Texas mountain, Philadelphia creek, and Baxter pass. Only saw a couple deer at the top of Baxter. Didn’t expect to see many deer due to the hot weather this weekend and the full moon but...

Saw one bull this weekend so based on that the herd is dismal haha. We have a few good ones on camera but they have vanished on us the last couple weeks probably sticking closer to water. Overall the herd seems down a bit based on what we’ve seen the last 10 years.