by PLJ Admin | Mar 6, 2025 | Colorado Resident Hunter Association
The resident big game Tag allocation confusion continues in Colorado under the direction of CPW Director Jeff Davis and CPW Commissioners. For the past two years, we have watched the CPW Commission lead efforts to “simplify” the Colorado big game draw, but in 2025 the...
by Brandon Siegfried | Feb 10, 2024 | Colorado Resident Hunter Association
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 Resident Hunter Association
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 Resident Hunter Association
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 Brandon Siegfried | Aug 16, 2023 | Colorado Resident Hunter Association
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...
