2025 CPW Draft Licenses Recommendations

[wildwilderness]

Are these increases based on biology or budget?

Bingo

 

[IrkedCitizen]

Some of those deer units that have huge increases in tags are units that had huge tag cuts preemptively in fear of high winter kill. They even cut the OTC seasons short in them

 

[35WhelenAI]

Take the first DAU , 02, that has multiple hunting units in the NW. It includes units 3, 301, 4, 441, 5, 4, 214. The total antlerless elk has gone up tremendously as a percentage for those seven units but no clue as to which specific unit has increases or if some had decreases while others had increases. There is no specific unit information available from what I'm reading. It's folly to think these numbers would have helped for any specific unit application, unless a DAU is made up of only one specific unit (5 out of 46 by my count). DAU 06 in the Northwest is made up of 12 units, good luck figuring out which units have the higher tag allocations even though the overall percentages are up tremendously just like in unit 02.

 

[ReaptheHeat]

The increase in deer tags seems strange for any unit since mule deer are struggling across the west.

Some of these units they cut doe tags to essentially 0 and buck tags in half 2 years ago. We are still WAY under total tags issued in 2022.

 

[Mtndawger]

Take the first DAU , 02, that has multiple hunting units in the NW. It includes units 3, 301, 4, 441, 5, 4, 214. The total antlerless elk has gone up tremendously as a percentage for those seven units but no clue as to which specific unit has increases or if some had decreases while others had increases. There is no specific unit information available from what I'm reading. It's folly to think these numbers would have helped for any specific unit application, unless a DAU is made up of only one specific unit (5 out of 46 by my count). DAU 06 in the Northwest is made up of 12 units, good luck figuring out which units have the higher tag allocations even though the overall percentages are up tremendously just like in unit 02.

FWIW This has been a complaint of mine since I began hunting these units back in the 90’s. The herds in these dau’s are largely migrating herds. Most of each herd generally summers in the eastern end and winters in the western end. Migration timing can be variable. It may be they approach it as raw data and not as a tool for hunters to target a specific location to hunt. Also, it’s generally true that there is more national forest available in the eastern end of these units, transitioning to more blm and larger private tracts toward the western end. This would allow hunters that have a certain amount of local knowledge to change up their strategy based on hunter pressure, migration timing , weather variables etc. They may be attempting to disperse hunters throughout and reduce crowding. I can for certain say that tag reductions in these units the past several years has increased crowding and reduced draw success in adjacent units without reductions over that time. Overall I think it creates less certainty for hunters trying to plan for upcoming season.

 

[snowdog104]

Thank you for sharing.


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[RusticRiver]

Am I missing something? I know there are no comparisons for past NR limited archery license sales but appears that overall, there are more tags available (NR archery) than have been bought previously. This smells like Colorado is trying to somehow make-up for losses attributed to mismanagement (ie. reintroduction of wolves, failed hound hunting outlaw, ...). I enjoy hunting the state but I really hate the people who govern and those who elected them.

 

[35WhelenAI]

I'm sure they put more non-resident archery tags with respect to the increases in archery tags available for draw than previous demand. The draw is a way of keeping people from applying unless they know they want to hunt. I think a lot of the OTC archery is decided on by hunters later in the year closer to the season. However if there are leftover tags folks can pick them up as long as they're available. It's going to take this year to see if there was a difference in the overcrowding. Up until then is armchair quarterbacking

 

[il_cop]

I did the same thing dude. We’re dumb together.

+1

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I live in sw Colorado and the deer numbers here are increasing a lot. It depends on what part of the state you want to hunt in. Some units (like the northern ones bordering Wyoming) got hit pretty hard, also the area s around Gunnison likewise.

 

[35WhelenAI]

It's fact the NW units got hammered in 2022, been talked about since then when cow tags went way down and bulls became a draw. Some units for instance went to 10 cow tags per rifle season, down from hundreds and hundreds to a total of 40 combined for all 4 seasons. That's based on looking at draw statistics and DAU information as the Northwest seems to be a topic for discussion.

I wouldn't give any credence to the increases in tags and getting hopes up until the draw itself. We have no idea how many tags were increased in the specific units, like I had shared in a previous post, it's all armchair quarterbacking at this point.