The 2024 Annual Preference Point 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.
In the issue: Big-game preference points for planning your 2024 hunt, plus herd counts and much more!
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Important Dates for the 2024 Colorado Big Game Hunting Season
- April 2, 2024, 8pm (MT) – Bear, deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, desert bighorn sheep and mountain goat limited license application & correction deadline (Primary Draw)
- June 28, 2024, 8pm (MT) – Bear, deer, elk, & pronghorn limited license application & correction deadline (Secondary Draw)
- August 6, 2024, 9am (MT) – Over-the-counter licenses (unlimited & add-on bear) and Remaining (leftover) limited licenses on sale online, in person and by phone, (no application necessary)
7 Responses
Why would I apply to hunt in a state that is doing everything it can to push the hunter out?
A number of friends are doing just that. Is it true that the states game biologists we’re against
Proposition 114? Who were the key promoters of Prop 114.
Let’s all buy hunting licenses so the state can use it to stock wolves and kill the game animals we used to hunt?
Passing in November 2020, Proposition 114 – now state statute 33-2-105.8 – directed the Parks and Wildlife Commission to develop a plan to restore and manage gray wolves in Colorado, using the best scientific data available and hold statewide hearings to acquire information to be considered in developing such plan, including scientific, economic, and social considerations pertaining to such restoration. The statute also directed the Parks and Wildlife Commission to take the steps necessary to begin the restoration of gray wolves in Colorado west of the Continental Divide no later than December 31, 2023
Made my one shot kill, first day of second hunt. A cactus buck. Had read about them, seen pictures of them but never seen one in real life. Colorado game management is the best. At 77 years of age and lived my life in Colorado I can recall my youth when our population of humans was low and our deer herds large. Now we see these facts flipped. There will always be crybabies who whine about game management. Myself, I thank Colorado Game Management for their wonderful job. Keep up your good work so that hunting will be there for years to come.
Mr Skinner: if CPW wants to make the argument that they bear no responsibility in contributing to the worst wildlife management policy in our state’s modern history, their argument is falling on deaf ears. CPW should have taken an aggressive stance on lobbying voters to reject the wolf introduction ballot. In case you forgot, (or never knew) the pro wolf lobby in 1983,1989 and most recently in 2016, submitted wolf introduction proposals to CPW which were all soundly rejected by CPW citing negative impacts to the big game hunting and ranching industries.
I’m in agreement. From what I hear, there we’re a number of surrounding states that refused Colorado’s request to supply the state with the wolfs for the reintroduction project – due to the negative impact the program had in there own state.
The negative effects will be slow, but once noticed will only increase, and over time will lessen
the game heards. This will result in fewer hunters, less revenue for the local businesses and drive out of state hunters to search for greener pastures. I personally know of three hunters that stopped hunting Colorado and started hunting other western states.