by PLJ Admin | Feb 10, 2024 | Colorado Hunting and Tag Allocation
The average Western state has a 90/10 big game tag allocation split for resident / nonresident hunters on all limited licenses. 90% of the elk, deer, and pronghorn licenses go to the residents of the average western state and only 10% are reserved for the visiting...
by PLJ Admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Colorado Hunting and Tag Allocation
Do you ever wonder why it is so hard to find out how many hundreds or thousands of nonresident elk hunters are putting in for a tag in a western state? I was recently trying to determine what the real draw odds are in the 2024 Arizona Elk draw. A review of the...
by PLJ Admin | Aug 22, 2023 | Colorado Hunting and Tag Allocation
Colorado Sells More Nonresident Elk Licenses Than All Western States Combined Recent research shared by the Colorado Resident Hunter Association Facebook group reveals that Colorado sells more nonresident elk tags than all seven western states combined. The numbers...
by PLJ Admin | Aug 16, 2023 | Colorado Hunting and Tag Allocation
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is meeting on August 25, 2023, in Steamboats Springs to discuss the possible removal of Over The Counter (OTC) elk tags in Colorado. Resident OTC elk hunters (rifle + archery) have declined by 8,000 since 2014, but...
by PLJ Admin | Mar 24, 2021 | Colorado Hunting and Tag Allocation
In March 2021, Colorado finally proposed a Senate Bill, SB 21-150 (Reserve Big Game Hunting Licenses for Residents), to ease resident hunter frustration as a result of a tag allocation bias inflicted on resident hunters for decades —-when compared to other...
