ORIGINAL: Alsatian

younggun 243: I recall you have posted asking about elk hunting before. A couple of suggestions. First, buy a book on elk hunting and read it: most such books will talk about the elk permit systems. One decent book is the Jim Zumbo Elk Hunting book in the Complete Hunter book series, though there are other good elk hunting books. Second, order the Big Game regulations of several of the Western states and read them very carefully -- Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. There just isn't a short cut for doing some time consuming due diligence research on this topic. Third, get the Colorado Big Game CD and use it to get more knowledge about seasons, draw probabilities, and success rates. Get to work bud!

I'm not an expert, but most of the attractive elk permits from my perspective are limited draw permits. You have to study the particular game management units versus seasons versus public/private land relationships to understand this issue clearly. Some of the elk seasons combine elk and deer seasons and this leads to more hunters in the field; these combined seasons may be later in the year when snow up high in public lands is more probable, both making these lands difficult to hunt and pushing the elk to lower, private lands. Study the regulations and then ask experienced elk hunters focused questions.

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ORIGINAL: younggun308

Nah, I ain't going to be doing a DIY for awhile, since my uncle isn't in the position to do that, but I do want to know in advance how the situation works, since I am interested, I sure hope that bull elk tags go back to OTC for sure, since that would make it easier to hunt elk later.
I heard there's more elk than deer in Colorado, but I bet Mule Deer would be nice.

Just out of curiosity, is Colorado easier to draw than Idaho, and if so, how many years do you have to wait to draw for Deer?

Thanks for the info, that does give me a little grip on things.

I have one more question, what about bear? Is that draw?

(2)"The Question"ended up NOT beingA question, rather it was a string of questions proliferating faster than any one could fully answer with no real indication of comprehension of the earlier answers given before more questions were launched. At that point, IMHO Alsatin gave some pretty good advice.... "since you need a book size answer.... go get a book" (paraphrase),and he offered somebook recommendations....

isn't Colorado OTC, with the exception of Sheep, Goats?Or is itdraw tags? Why am I hearing about draw tags? Are only a few areas OTC?

Are there any other states that have OTC areas for non-residents?

How does the system work? I heard something about Idaho and Montana having preference points, and when you apply every year, you gain more and more pointsif you don't draw, and some partial refund, and if you do draw, it's prepaid, I guess? And then you just go up there and hunt?

I recall you have posted asking about elk hunting before. A couple of suggestions. First, buy a book on elk hunting and read it: most such books will talk about the elk permit systems. One decent book is the Jim Zumbo Elk Hunting book in the Complete Hunter book series, though there are other good elk hunting books.

Second, order the Big Game regulations of several of the Western states and read them very carefully -- Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. There just isn't a short cut for doing some time consuming due diligence research on this topic.

Third, get the Colorado Big Game CD and use it to get more knowledge about seasons, draw probabilities, and success rates. Get to work bud!

This addresses the pattern endless questions regarding general elk hunting fromthreads previous to this one.

Second, order the Big Game regulations of several of the Western states and read them very carefully -- Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. There just isn't a short cut for doing some time consuming due diligence research on this topic.

Third, get the Colorado Big Game CD and use it to get more knowledge about seasons, draw probabilities, and success rates. Get to work bud!

Feel free to do arobust job of answering that string of multi-state questions yourself.
We'll watch.

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