Colorado points?

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Is the process if just buying points a smooth process.Do you loose points if you skip a year?
Looking to go for a cow tag in a few years.
 
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Non res draw cow moose tags all the time with 0 points and beat out residents with 20+ points. Not sure how many years you can skip before you lose your points.
 

30338

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If you want to hunt them just apply to draw each year. With the wolves moving in, hard to say how things will change. I shot a cow a few years back just to check the box off. Glad I did actually.
 

cnelk

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Overdrive

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Non res draw cow moose tags all the time with 0 points and beat out residents with 20+ points. Not sure how many years you can skip before you lose your points.
Yup my NR friends have drawn 4 cow tags, one had drawn 3 years in a row and the other drew as a 2nd choice. That was about 5 years ago, the unit has changed as has the PP needed. But it was fun going with them and helping out
 

Beendare

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When I realized my odds of-ever drawing a bull was astronomical even with 12 points….I drew out on a cow. Expensive tag, and not much of a hunt as they aren’t super wary but another species with my recurve.

The meat is fantastic…no wild taste at all.
 
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Im just looking for the experience and meat,something for me and son to do as most western hunts are going to be out of reach.
 
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Some units can be drawn with 0 points. Personally, I would not use more than 1 PP on a cow. Just get into the system and apply for a PP this year once the app process opens up.
 

svivian

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Jesus H Christ.
Read the 2022 stats. There isn’t ONE unit - Nada / Zilch / ZERO - that you can draw with 0 PPs
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What changed in 2021 and 2022? Other than the suspicious amount of Nonresidents who drew on zero points previously
 

WI Shedhead

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Buying pp is a waste of time after you have 3 and are in the draw. The minuscule odds increases for the cash warranted is a money grab. I have 3+12 for all of the big three and apply every year but I’ll be damned if I’m giving them anymore cash. They pulled the rug out from nrs 4 years ago and devalued my investment considerably
 

Ddubs20

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You lose your points if you don't apply for 10 years. WI shedhead has it figured out! It is impossible to draw 3 years in a row. You're only eligible after acquiring 3 points. So the best you could do would be every 4th year. Shoot the smallest cow you see, or one close to the road!
 
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I was a resident of Colorado for 35 years I had 20 points when I left which is sad. I now have 25 points or 3 preference and 22 weighted. A friend of mine drew a non-res. tag with 25 in 2016. At this point I've resigned myself to the fact that now as a non-res. I am a couple of years behind the curve. I may never drawn a moose tag in CO my current plan is to apply until I turn 55 (I'm 40 now, and unless I become ill) and then burn the damn things on a cow. My hopes of killing a Shiras bull now lie in MT, ID, and WA.
 
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Current odds with my points is about 2% pretty damn degrading considering I could have gone on a guided moose hunt for what I've invested. Same boat for sheep and goat. I guess I'm a fool and I'm getting older maybe someday I'll geat a chance at one of em before I'm to old to do it. Better yet maybe they will come up with a transferable on death points system considering the amount of money invested and I can give my son a chance at a tag in his lifetime.
 
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