GA Sheephunter
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If I bought a preference point for elk in CO, can I still buy an OTC/Leftover tag in August, or can you not hunt elk at all if you bought a pref pt?
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Yes.
Hespco
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No such thing as a dumb question if you don't know. Yes you can buy a left over tag or you can come on out & buy an over the counter tag. You PP will give you an competitive edge towards next years drawing.
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Techy
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Like others said, yes you can still but a tag. You can also look and see about how many preference points you will need for different units. Just know it keeps going up. Point creep sucks! You see a unit that will take 7 points, but bit the time you get 7 points it will probably take 9 or 10.
You can buy OTC or leftover tag. Some of the better elk units here in Co may require more than 20pt for non resident. Non resident get % of the tag on first choice and depending on how may 1st choice apply, not all non resident will draw tag. You may had 10 non resident same points but only 5 tags for non resident and it happens to resident. I was one of 7 resident and only 3 tags and I didn't draw. You can get on DOW site and they have draw results on each game unit and give you break down.
You be lot better if you apply for the draw and pick unit you know you won't draw. You could draw on one of the 3 choices with no points needed or the leftover draw.
Point creep is very real and very annoying here. It really got noticeable in the late '90's for us.
Techy
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creep seemed to really take off again the last 10 years
I think it's some of that and it to be expected with all the new houses being build front range.
cohunt
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Point creep would have been horrible if they kept the apply/pts fee at only $3 like last year
I'm not really sure that going to help. We gained over 500K new resident from 2010 to 2017 and they say it going to be between 10k/13k each year. It be interesting to see result from this years draw.
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It's never been a problem to CO residents, for decades. You can't blame the system for a cattle-like mass exodus! The extra $50 to just get a point for sheep, moose and goat is a complete ripoff and smacks of Cali/Tex influence. So far, the CPW (who took over CDOW) experiment in CO, is a failure.
Back to the OP, yes, you have many good options between leftovers and OTC, particularly if you can do the later hunts.
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