Changes in Colorado's Harvest Statistics Reporting for 2025

[Winchester]

FYI everyone, in case you haven't noticed it yet, Colorado changed how they are reporting Harvest Statistics this year.

In previous years harvest stats were listed by individual hunt unit. So, even if a huntcode contained a group of GMUs hunters could still use the individual hunt unit listings to find the harvest stats for each GMU within that huntcode.

However; the 2025 Harvest Stats are only listed by huntcode, not individual hunt units. Therefore, if a huntcode containes a group of GMUs they are now all listed with the same harvest stat, which is an average of the entire group. The fidelity of the individual GMUs within the huntcode are lost.

This change has the biggest impact on Over-the-Counter (OTC) hunts.
For Example: the 90+ different OTC Bull Elk Rifle Units that fall under the single huntcodes EM000U2R and EM000U3R are all now averaged into a single 2025 harvest statistic for that one Huntcode!!
Just one average harvest stat for all those units.
This is horribly misleading. Individual units that were previously reported as having extremely low harvest success or extremely high are all now just averaged into a single number. This makes the OTC harvest stats petty much useless.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Well the stats were based on voluntary random surveys so they were basically BS anyhow… welp guess the hunt stat business fellas can make up numbers to get people to apply for units

 

[AG8]

You would have to be crazy to voluntarily report success in a specific OTC unit to begin with. Now maybe more people will return the surveys without lying, and the bios can get a better idea for actual management purposes

 

[5MilesBack]

I've never given much credence or interest in harvest stats, except for moose, sheep, and goat.

 

[BoogerCounty]

There are lies, "darned" lies, and statistics...this falls into the 3rd category