Hi everyone! I am writing an editorial article for my college English class on Amendment 83. We need to conduct our own research for our papers, so I have made a Google Forms survey with some brief questions about the initiative. If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate your responses! The link is posted below. Thank you so much in advance!
I’ve been putting in for this tag since 2020. Went pronghorn hunting once in a leftover tag season in 2022 and gained a healthy respect for just how hard it is to close the distance on this guys, when it’s so easy to find them. He’s not a monster but excited to get him on the table and try my first pronghorn.
Hello all,
I’m a 21 year old college student in Boulder, and this will be my first year seriously hunting. I have limited experience and have never gone out on my own. I’ve been on a few hunts on private land in Texas and New Mexico with family (dove, aoudad, and elk), but I wouldn’t say that I gained much valuable experience from them. My family doesn’t have much experience, so we went into them unprepared and failed pretty miserably. I’ve never done a true spot and stalk out in the wilderness, and since I’ve never harvested anything, I’ve never done field dressing or packing out. Despite my lack of success, I’ve completely fallen in love with hunting and decided that this year I’m taking it seriously. I have all my backpacking gear, hunting gear, and licenses/tags. I’m open to all kinds of game, but my real focus this season is on mule deer and elk. I have a few friends who are interested in joining, but they’re beginners as well. My question is, should I consider getting a guide, or would it be better to DIY? I have the money for a guide, so I’m not worried about that. I just wouldn’t want to pay someone to do all the work, and I just sit there and pull the trigger, and if I couldn’t bring my friends that might steer me away from it too. Did any of you just jump in the deep end with big game in the mountains? Would it help to try small game or pronghorn in the next couple weeks to build experience? And is there any advice you wish you would’ve heard when you started? Thanks!
Thank you all for the feedback on the elk and deer plans. Some of you went through every pin and told me what was right and what was off on ground you know, and that's exactly what I needed. One of you caught a water source the plan should have used, and I'm fixing it because of that.
Same deal again, this time for small game: the first 75 small game plans are free.
Grouse, ducks, doves, rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, quail and the rest of Colorado's small game. Pick your species, your unit and the day you're hunting. You get the patches of the right habitat for that date on public land in your unit, each with a legal place to park and the walk in from the truck, plus the season rules and bag limits.
It takes about a minute, and there's no card and no catch. All I ask is that you tell me afterwards what matched the ground and what didn't.
https://www.filledtag.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_content=cohunting-smallgame#signup
What it won't do: it doesn't know where birds are today and it can't promise you a limit. It's public land only, so no private or Walk-In Access parcels.
Happy to answer questions here.
This is the area I’m looking at trying this month for my first ever elk hunt. I’ve read it can be crowded so is there any surrounding areas maybe close to but outside the wilderness area that it worth looking at as well?