CO gmu 12,13,23,24

jdm04 · Apr 16, 2009

Hello to all, I love this site and have been lurking for a while. I was hoping some of you guys mught give me a few tips? My family (4 of us) have decided to hunt CO this year, we are will have deer tags, a couple of cow tags and a bull tag and will be hunting gmu 12 for the most part. This is our first time going to CO, and we arent expecting anything spectacular just a fun trip with lifelong hunting partners. Does anyone have any tips or recommendations that we could use to sway the odds of success in our favor?

Thanks in advance

Rem308 · Apr 16, 2009

You will have lots of company. GMU12 gets the crap hunted out of it.

camonick · Apr 16, 2009

I guess you will be their 2nd season? If so a lot will depend on the weather and how bad the herd got shot up during 1st season, I also here it is typically a full moon? and so the animals move at night, not sure about this fact, but it came from a reliable source in that area. One thing for sure is that it sure is a pretty area, and there are a lot of animals, but it also has a fair share of orange on the hillsides.
best of luck

smilesgv · Apr 16, 2009

The longer you can the stay the better, pressure drops off as the season progress by the last weekend it is quite. Get there early though if you are planning to camp.

Rem308 · Apr 17, 2009

Sent you a PM .

stinky · Apr 17, 2009

I've hunted in there several times, and will possibly do so again. Once it snows, on or about Halloween, and your ability to move around in the N-Forest goes away, everything moves down low, and hunting opportunites become limited to the Jensen and Oak Ridge State Wildlife area and the competition really begins.

So, hut the 2nd or 3rd seasons....if not muzzleoader.

There are some real good areas in there, but I have only found some fair to good ones.

wheatja114 · Apr 20, 2009

Get you a map that shows public & private land. That is a MUST! ALLOT of orange. Be prepared to walk in "deep" to get away from the orange. As the week wears on it does get better. (less hunters)