Age and Points

[LostArra]

How many 60+ or 70+ are still playing the points game? Species? State?
I'm out.
I lost my elk points in Wyoming a few years ago when I drew a random tag with 2% odds at 70yo. Now I hunt cows and get photos of bulls and hope for another random tag.


This guy was 10' away on the opposite side of a juniper tree before he chased off my/his cow.

 

[Wheels]

Not quite 60 yet(59) but am almost out of the points chasing game. Drew an Arizona elk tag this year and hope to draw the Wyoming elk tag I want next year. Have a few deer points in CO, but will use them as soon as I draw the Wyoming tag.

 

[mt terry d]

I never got into the game in the first place.

I don't know all the ins and outs of it but if I were young
I'd just work extra hard to be able to afford to hunt Alaska
when I wanted to; not when I'm too old to really hit it or never
even get the opportunity.

 

[cnelk]

61 yo - Didnt have any PPs this year in Colorado (except antelope) since I burned them last year [Moose/Elk]
I gave up on Colorado moose now [shot a bull and cow]

I got another elk PP this year for future use since its only $8.

Still playing the elk PP game in Wyo since Im vested but drawing 2nd choice tags until I have enough to get drawn where I want to hunt.

Colorado deer? meh

Colorado antelope? meh

 

[mainbeam pursuit2]

I'm 64 and will be done playing the point game. I do have 3 elk and 2 deer points that I'll burn next year since it's not enough to do much with.

 

[flathead#2]

Never really got in the points game.
I tried az a few times but after studying the system
and realizing the futility I dropped out with no regrets.
I've been blessed and hunted AK, Idaho, NM and Tx a few times ea.
Didnt apply anywhere this year.
I'll be 59 shortly and quite content hunting my home state
and doing a lot more fishing.

 

[survivalistd]

65 and let's go...

 

[Backyard]

Im 62 and got lucky enough this year to use my 5 pts in Wyoming for what will most likely be my last elk hunt. It’s just too expensive and complicated to continue giving them my money.


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[Mtndawger]

For elk, deer and pronghorn I am still applying for points in CO. I have some units in mind for those points which aren’t the super high point units. I wouldn’t have a problem using 10 points for a lower point unit if it offered up less hunter density and fun terrain to hunt. It’s popular to talk about the no man’s land of points but I am not focused on trophy potential so much as I look for overall hunt quality and success opportunity by my own criteria not influencer statistical gobbledygook. I look for opportunities in the margins. For me that is largely about how to get away from people and hunt animals that have not been run around for 3 seasons.

 

[LostArra]

My current elk hunt criteria is elk hunting every year.

 

[Weldor]

Yep, apply every year . 64.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

For sure. I am 83 now and I have 5 points for antelope & deer in Wyoming. I also have 8 antelope, 13 elk & 1 deer in my home state of Colorado. Probably burn all of the Wyoming points next year. My hunting buddy has 9 antelope & 9 deer, so if we buy one for each of them as a group this year, we will have 8 for each and probably draw them all, Once I have used my Wyoming points I am done there.

I'll continue to apply for points in Colorado. With the hybrid draw in effect, I can apply for certain tags and if I don't get them I get a point. I can draw a hybrid if I have 5 points, no matter what it takes to draw. I plan on hunting until I can't do it physically. I took my Dad on his last hunt when he was 90....and he got a 5x6 bull.

 

[Woitey]

I'm 66, and burning my points. Pulled a RFW elk migration hunt this year, and didn't get drawn for pronghorn. Up to 9 there. I am putting in for moose as the rules change in 2028, which does away with the hybrid draw, but I'm going for a cow as I'll never live long enough to draw a bull.

 

[DanMan]

I'm 61 and have from 15 to 20 points for multiple species in 6 states. I gotta start cashing them in.
I think soon we will start listing a guys points in the obituary

 

[Woitey]

I wish you could leave them to family or simply sell them.

 

[Buckhunter55]

I’m 69, I burned my Oregon elk points last year 17 and stumbled into a good bull. I’m using my Colorado deer points this year 26, I drew unit 61. I’m done with Colorado as I used my elk points 2 years ago. I have max points for deer in Wyoming as well as 17 points for moose, 10 points for elk and antelope. I also have a pile of points for deer and antelope in Oregon. I hope I live long enough to use them before I’m to crippled up. I’ve had both hips replaced, both knees replaced and both ankles fused. I’ll include a photo of last year’s bull and a photo of my ankles.

 

[nm.otter]

Damn, those look like some kind of titanium hardware store project. How do they feel/walk?

 

[Huntndog]

I’m 69, I burned my Oregon elk points last year 17 and stumbled into a good bull. I’m using my Colorado deer points this year 26, I drew unit 61. I’m done with Colorado as I used my elk points 2 years ago. I have max points for deer in Wyoming as well as 17 points for moose, 10 points for elk and antelope. I also have a pile of points for deer and antelope in Oregon. I hope I live long enough to use them before I’m to crippled up. I’ve had both hips replaced, both knees replaced and both ankles fused. I’ll include a photo of last year’s bull and a photo of my ankles.

Ow!!!!

 

[DLSJR]

I’m 66 and have tons of points in Nevada, Arizona & Wyoming, both myself and my 37 year old son. I’ve told him that as we draw in Wyoming, we will drop out from those hunts, but with 26 sheep points each for both of us, we are on the cusp of drawing Bighorn tags. He also has 26 moose points. We’ve both got 12-14 deer, elk, antelope points & plan is to burn them all in next 5 years.

I’m not as worried about Nevada & Arizona as I plan to retire at 70 and move to Nevada, so I’ll then have boatloads of resident points. Might do the same in AZ, might not. We both have nearly 30 sheep points there and I’m sitting on 26 or 27 elk points and planning to hunt elk in ‘27.

But, as I draw tags, I’ll probably stop applying for everything, except AZ elk.

 

[Beendare]

I'm 67....and still holding some hope for Nevada elk with 23 points. I should probably just stop considering the good units are at 1/2% even with all of those points. I drew out in a few other states then just stopped putting in.