Colorado Outdoors Annual ‘Preference Point’ Issue Now Available!

For Colorado big-game hunters, the time is now to begin preparing for the upcoming fall hunting seasons.

Spring is right around the corner—time to hang up your camo and forget about hunting until next fall, right? Wrong. For Colorado big-game hunters, the time is now to begin preparing for the upcoming fall hunting seasons.

Colorado Outdoors, Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s conservation magazine, is a valuable planning resource for hunters. The Jan/Feb issue features preference-point data and statewide herd-population estimates to guide big-game hunters in applying for limited big-game licenses. This is a must-have item for any Colorado hunter.

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Al Binder says:

June 3, 2019 at 10:53 am

Been on phone for an hour and still unable to find my preference points acquired. Frustrating

Thanks

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