AvidIndoorsman
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Yeah I burned mine... should be a shoe in but I don't think I will draw.
Colorado Draw Extended
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Agreed that’s probably going to be an unintended result of the extension (and the only valid reasoning I’ve heard to be miffed @ CPW for extending - but let’s face it, social media trends and behavioral results of same are WAY down the list on their IT punchlist)
I hope (but doubt) that people that applied successfully are standing pat (I built an elaborate excel model to choose my sheep unit but it was a tie and I regretted it, but I’m not changing it because I hope to not have to use the CPW website again until August) but I imagine there are a lot of people modifying apps that otherwise wouldn’t have.
BlakeA
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Yup.
RobertD
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What's wrong with bear tags in CO? I have a few questions about bear tags/hunting in CO, would like to hear what you're alluding to.
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It's my known pet peeve... overly complicated system generally speaking.
Colorado Bear Tag - Fix
Right now you can get 2+ bear tags in much of CO, yet the regulations are insanely complicated. Map shows what the current hunt codes look like. Left over tags were on the Leftover and Re-issued list, not the secondary draw list. Here is my solution. 3 Codes Anything in green BE001O1R - A tag...
www.hunttalk.com
Should you buy a bear tag?
Depends on where you are hunting...
RobertD
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I see. I have seen your post with this map somewhere else here on HT. I'll be an early investor in BroHunt... but seriously, interesting stuff.It's my known pet peeve... overly complicated system generally speaking.
Colorado Bear Tag - Fix
Right now you can get 2+ bear tags in much of CO, yet the regulations are insanely complicated. Map shows what the current hunt codes look like. Left over tags were on the Leftover and Re-issued list, not the secondary draw list. Here is my solution. 3 Codes Anything in green BE001O1R - A tag...
Should you buy a bear tag?
Depends on where you are hunting...
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I've been on a personal mission lately to determine why most units they seemingly can't give the tags away, then there are like a half dozen that take five or ten points? I feel like I'm the only person who's clueless as to why that is. Suppose I should check harvest % though, might help explain.
LuketheDog
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I heard a rumor CPW spent their 2021 IT budget on wolf reintroduction instead...
LuketheDog
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What does that red strip coincide with in unit 51? Just the edge of the foothills?
It's my known pet peeve... overly complicated system generally speaking.
Colorado Bear Tag - Fix
Right now you can get 2+ bear tags in much of CO, yet the regulations are insanely complicated. Map shows what the current hunt codes look like. Left over tags were on the Leftover and Re-issued list, not the secondary draw list. Here is my solution. 3 Codes Anything in green BE001O1R - A tag...
Should you buy a bear tag?
Depends on where you are hunting...
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Dinkshooter
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Except I've seen bears in some of his white units.
BoulderBulls
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I just listened to the first 'bear grease' podcast, you might want to double check that because it's a 90% chance you actually saw a house cat
AvidIndoorsman
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It's the fall bear concentration area layer. Essentially in my map I took the total bears killed in a unit, then intersected it to the fall concentration area. Basically saying most bears killed in any give unit were killed in the fall concentration area. Then I divided number of bears killed by total area of the fall concentration area in that unit.
So the color coding is bears per acre in fall concentration areas. The grey is the bear range layer. The breaks and my methodology are bit arbitrary hence the silly labels.
But as @Dinkshooter alluded to bears roam a great deal so you could run into one anywhere in the state.
Science...ish... anecdotally it's spot on with n=1
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1 SWA
2 Private Ranches
Non-residents can't draw Ranching for Wildlife... so basically 847 NR are vying for 1 SWA in CO... they get 1 tag a year.
... but yea keep buying bear points
Honestly, save your money and pm @SaskHunter and I'm sure he can help you figure out a better way to kill a bear.
BE851XXXX - Bosque del OSO SWA
BosqueDelOsoSWA_printablemap.pdf
drive.google.com
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is a nationally recognized leader in conservation, outdoor recreation and wildlife management. The agency manages 42 state parks, all of Colorado's wildlife, more than 300 state wildlife areas and a host of recreational programs. CPW issues hunting and fishing...
cpw.state.co.us
2019-2 Sow
2018-2 Boar
2017-0
2016-2 Sow
2015-1 Boar
2014-0
2013-1 Boar, 1 Sow
2012-0
2011-0
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is a nationally recognized leader in conservation, outdoor recreation and wildlife management. The agency manages 42 state parks, all of Colorado's wildlife, more than 300 state wildlife areas and a host of recreational programs. CPW issues hunting and fishing...
cpw.state.co.us
2019-0
2018-0
2017-0
2016-0
2015-0
2014-1 Boar
2013-1 Sow
2012-1 Sow
2011-0
Interesting I live in a purple area and haven't seen a bear in 2 years. I always have B list bear tag so that must prove they are good as bear repellant.It's my known pet peeve... overly complicated system generally speaking.
Colorado Bear Tag - Fix
Right now you can get 2+ bear tags in much of CO, yet the regulations are insanely complicated. Map shows what the current hunt codes look like. Left over tags were on the Leftover and Re-issued list, not the secondary draw list. Here is my solution. 3 Codes Anything in green BE001O1R - A tag...
Should you buy a bear tag?
Depends on where you are hunting...
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AvidIndoorsman
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Qualifier my map is mostly for September, and I bet the purple means 5-10% success in that specific area.
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They’re owed all the way up to the deadline. If the CO site crashes before the deadline hits, it’s only right that they extend it. The deadline was 8pm, not “whatever time our website crashes”.
I was checking out when it crashed on me. It had been painfully slow the whole time. Yes it was last minute. Between being self-employed, wrangling a 2yr old and trying not to burden a pregnant wife, I was convinced that the app deadline was the 9th even though I had checked it repeatedly. It was only checking emails that day that I noticed the deadline was actually the 6th. I had picked hunt codes quite a bit earlier, but still wanted to do more research before I made things final. I had things in my cart and was doing last minute research on GoHunt plus asking a fellow HuntTalker before pulling the trigger. I was satisfied with my choices and in the checkout process when the site crashed. Could I have done all that a day or two before? Sure. Is it my fault that I had the wrong date in mind? Yep. Did I fail to meet the deadline? Nope. There I was, seconds away from completing my application before the deadline, and the site crashed.
Two years ago, I got in on AZ in time. A similar circumstance occurred. AZ extended the deadline, and at the time, I said it was the right thing to do, even though I was already in.
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Its all about that money. They are raking in the cash with this draw, and didn't want it to stop. I am surprised they didn't extend it a week or two.
Blacktailbc
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This doesn’t give me a high degree of confidence in the new leftover system 
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This is stupid, it’s parroted all over FB and makes no sense.
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