Tips to pick up CO leftover tags?

[justinspicher]

Well in that case I guess it’s a non issue.

 

[5MilesBack]

Enjoy it for what it is, not what it's not. If you want a sure thing, go to walmart, ladies aisle....... You guys will do well there.

I wish I could find decent elk tags at Walmart in the ladies aisle......even if they were knockoffs printed in China.

 

[NickyD]

Since they started the new system I’ve gotten some decent tags, at least one per year. Not including the ones with plenty of tags that are easy to get.

Seems like each year there’s less decent tags available, and they’ve become harder to get each time.

I’m probably going to throw in the towel on the reissue list after this year. The new reissue system can’t come fast enough!

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

What’s with the angry @Lil-Rokslider and @sndmn11 at the couple of us that said we or acquaintances could actually get tags at times? Obviously what we said wasn’t secret (hence the fact it’s already fractions of seconds till a tag is gone, demand far outweighs supply here).

Should we pretend it’s all bots and fuel that theory so the demand falls from real people (which is obviously huge)?

 

[sndmn11]

What’s with the angry @Lil-Rokslider and @sndmn11 at the couple of us that said we or acquaintances could actually get tags at times? Obviously what we said wasn’t secret (hence the fact it’s already fractions of seconds till a tag is gone, demand far outweighs supply here).

Should we pretend it’s all bots and fuel that theory so the demand falls from real people (which is obviously huge)?

You gave too many hints!

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

You gave too many hints!

I didn’t spell it out and as noted they already go in milliseconds so I think that cat is already outta the bag. If they stuck around for half a minute still I’d be holding my tongue.

 

[IvanRusty]

Since they started the new system I’ve gotten some decent tags, at least one per year. Not including the ones with plenty of tags that are easy to get.

Seems like each year there’s less decent tags available, and they’ve become harder to get each time.

I’m probably going to throw in the towel on the reissue list after this year. The new reissue system can’t come fast enough!

Huh. That's a super interesting system but read it's not coming till 2028? I sort of assumed any of the nicer tags were beyond my reach unless I lucked out on the leftovers.

 

[Fowl Play]

I don’t think it’s bots in the sense of what you guys are thinking. They are likely not snagging them before anyone else theoretically can, they probably have a “bot” that can just do the steps a human could do but much faster. Sync time with Colorado’s website, account for ping, look for the website update time, perform the button clicks in milliseconds. This 100% can be done.

It’s also quite possible their site randomizes which button click it accepts as 1st that it receives in that first second. In that instantaneous “randomized draw” you likely have much less than a 1% chance. This is what the recreation.gov site does and you get to see that fiasco of campgrounds disappearing in a millisecond every single day of the year. It’s not bots in that instance, doubt it is here either. If Colorado’s website randomizes received requests, then not even a fancy button clicker program would guarantee you the tag.