Turning In Tags

[Slugz]

Wanted to get the crowds experience/comment on this.
When we turn in a tag now in CO it has to be I believe 30 days prior to the hunt starting. If you meet thst deadline ypu get your points back. That tag then goes on that weekly list that is put out and opens up each week at a certain time for the general public to get it off the leftover list.

If someone turns in a tag and I'm behind him in line at the CDOW can I say I would like that tag? As long as I meet all the other standard requirements. Or do I have to wait for it to be published on the list before trying to get it?

 

[graybird]

Interesting thought/question.

My guess is that it will need to be processed; therefore, requiring a few days for it to show up on the "list".

With this being the first year for the reissuing of tags, it'll be interesting watching things unfold. I turned in an antelope doe tag a couple years and specifically asked what happened with the tag, and the reply is that it is gone forever.

I'm sure there will be some growing pains with the new implementation.

 

[Winchester]

I think part of it depends on how many points it took to draw the tag.
If it took 5 or more PP the 2017 Big Game Brochure says:

2017 LICENSE REISSUE POLICY
■ Any license that is returned to CPW that took 5 or more preference points to
draw will be manually reissued to the next eligible person based on the
residency status of the returned license.
» If a resident license gets returned, it will be reissued to a resident; if a
nonresident license gets returned, it will be reissued to a nonresident.
■ For each license returned, CPW will contact the next 5 people from the
current year’s draw order.
■ If one of those individuals accepts the license from the manual reissue process,
all of that person’s preference points will be used.
■ If a person has a current conflicting license for that species, they may
exchange their current license for the one being offered.
» The exchange fee will be assessed, which is fifty percent of the cost of the
original license, not to exceed $25.
■ If none of those 5 people accept the license from the manual reissue process, it
will be placed onto the leftover list at random intervals.
■ Any license that is returned to CPW that took fewer than 5 preference points
to draw will automatically be placed onto the leftover list at random intervals.
■ Customers who obtain a license from the leftover list will NOT have to use
their preference points.

 

[ColoradoV]

The cpw will not re issue to the next person in line or a guy with say 18 points could draw a 1 point archery tag every year and let his son/friend/guy who paid him for the tag pick it up behind him as it was turned in...

There is a game or more of a art to getting a returned tag and this is not the first year it has they have had a leftover draw it has been going on for many years - just last year they included returned tags to the leftover list.. It can happen I got 2 returned tags last year and my father got one. We went 2 out of 3 on the returned licenses we got.

The rules have changed for this year and that will effect how they give out the returned tags a bit but the way they give out the leftovers will remain the same.

I know last year that there were guys who had 5-6 people attempting to get them a single tag on line at the same time when the whistle blew at 9. All you need is a hunters info and anyone or a robot for that matter can fill in the blank. Many ways to abuse a online system that is why I wish they were all given out at license dealers so folks had to physically be there.