navy_chief
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Well it looks as if I won't have enough points to draw a high country hunt aS it stands now. So it looks like a 3rd season hunt is the best choice just as ishootdasmallones was saying.
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My buddy and I had two of the 5 non-resident early rifle tags in unit 36. We scouted, had some local help but you can't fight the weather. Saw some good deer during our scouting trip in August, but none of them were still up high by the time we got back for the opener in September. If this hunt was 1 week earlier or opened with archery I would say yes, but where they have it just all depends on the cold fronts in my opinion.
I could see why this would be a great hunt on the right year, we had 20+ mph winds and got snowed on several times. On the plus side it is some amazingly beautiful country.
Doing it over again I would have burnt my points on an area with higher deer density. Live and learn. Still loved being up there and the fishing was amazing in some of the high country lakes.
I really wanted to love the hunt. The scouting trip was a blast and we saw some great deer.
I talked to the warden for the area he told me they used to have the hunt open labor day but had to much hunter/hiker conflict and moved it back a week to avoid it. Very disappointing. Everyone we met was very nice but I'm sure it only takes a few bad instances for the wardens not to want to deal with it. There may be more to that story he didn't share with me.
Unfortunately CO doesn't do mandatory reporting so if the sample size is small you really don't know the actual harvest statistics. I know of 4 of the 5 non residents ate their tags this year.