I just wanted to extend a thank you for taking the time to answer my questions at the Denver ISE show. I asked you several questions regarding the Schnee’s Sheep hunter boots. I ended up buying a pair and I finally received them a couple of days ago. I love them. They are so comfortable. In your lecture you made mention that you would post your 5 year plan on your blog. I noticed that you updated your blog with the 5 day backcountry hunt which helps to reassure me that what I’m doing and taking with me on my hunts is the same thing that guy’s like you and Cameron are also taking. 1. In your lecture you spoke about writing down a 5 year structured plan for drawing in several states. My question for you is why do you have 5 different areas to draw for in a certain state like Colorado if it takes 4 or 5 years to draw a tag in them areas. For example, if your plan for elk in Colorado was to look like this

Year #1 Unit 76
Year #2 Unit 201
Year #3 Unit 10
Year #4 Unit 13
Year #5 Unit 2

It appears to me that you are trying to draw 5 different units in you plan instead of concentrating on just one unit. Like in area 76. You should be able to draw an archery tag for that unit in 4 to 5 years where in units 10 and 201 it will take you a minimum of 13 to 15 years.

Maybe I’m just not understanding how to come up with an effective 5 year plan or I misunderstood what you were trying to say. Could you give me some advise as to how I can come up with an effective 5 year plan.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond,
Jason Willis

P.S. I have an article in to you titled “Patience, Patience, Patience. Hopefully it’s good enough material for your publication.

Dear Jason,
Thank you for attending the lecture. I am glad your new Schnee’s boots. They are well worth the money.

As for the areas that appeared in my lecture, I just listed four or five of the top areas that I have included in our (Mike’s and mine) multi year plans in the past five or six years. I review my areas each year and often times change them from year to year based on herd conditions, season dates or even draw odds. Colorado is a bit of a unique case because the CO preference point system is a complete “lock-out” system and unless you have enough points to draw you are just applying for points. Were as almost every other state it is statistically possible to draw a tag on your first go. So with CO I started out by applying for 10 and 201 for elk six years ago, but have since changed my strategy because I just cannot justify waiting 14 or 15 years to hunt elk in CO. At this point, I am just in the process of banking points and then I can decide if I want to bowhunt in 76 or keep gathering points to rifle hunt there instead. Keep in mind, I am not trying to draw all 5 areas at once, we just wanted to list five of the better units for guys to look at when trying to hunt in CO.

When we built the lecture we wanted to give guys a few options in Colorado because, telling guys to start giving CO money for the next 15 years and you might be able to hunt elk in unit 201 would make for a pretty discouraging lecture.

I hope this helps to clarify this for you. Attached you will find the actual area listing and explanations from the lecture. Thank you for the feedback and I look forward to reading your article.

Sincerely,
Guy

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