Colorado now allows lighted nocks!!

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Jason Balazs

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About time!!

CPW COMMISSION APPROVES REGULATIONS

DENVER - The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approved regulation changes that impact big game hunting in Colorado at its January meeting. These approvals are in addition to other regulation changes made in November.

Commissioners received briefings on a variety of possible changes over the past several months and approved the following changes for the 2015 Big Game season:

?Archers may now use lighted nocks on arrows, which can help aid in recovery of game animals. New rules are also in place that allow recording devices to be mounted on a bow.

?Antler shed collection in the Eagle and Roaring Fork Valleys now has restrictions in place for collecting sheds at certain times of the year. This helps minimize disturbance of animals on their winter range.

?The draw is now regulated so youths get at least 15 percent of the limited licenses in every game management unit for antlerless pronghorn, antlerless and either-sex deer and antlerless elk for all methods of take and seasons, including early and late rifle seasons.

?Additional elk hunts are now available in game management units 128 and 61, to help aid in the quality of hunts, better manage the elk population east of I-25, and address landowner concerns.

?Additional deer hunts are now available in GMU 65, 41, 55, 551, 201, 103 and 109.

?Pronghorn muzzleloader season has been moved to Sept. 21-29.

?Area restrictions are now in place for moose hunters in GMU 20 and 29. The restriction is a quarter mile that extends out from the high water mark of Brainard Lake until the U.S. Forest Service gate closes, (at or near Oct. 12). Once the gate closes, the closure is lifted.

?Additional moose licenses are now available in GMU 38. Hunters can also now choose between a license for GMUs 7, 8, and 191 or a license for 191 only.

?Bear season has been expanded if the hunter purchases an elk or deer license in a matching GMU.
Listen to the recorded discussion of these topics and more at <!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http://cpw.state.co.us/about\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href);return false;\">http://cpw.state.co.us/about</a><!-- m -->?/?/CommissionMeeting2015-1.aspx

All CPW regulations are available at <!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http://cpwstate.co.us/aboutus/Pages/Regulations.aspx\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href);return false;\">http://cpwstate.co.us/aboutus/Pages/Regulations.aspx</a><!-- m -->. A summary of these changes will also be available in the 2015 Big Game Brochure scheduled for release Feb. 10.

The Commission meets regularly and travels to communities around the state to facilitate public participation in its processes.

The Commission is scheduled to meet for the March meeting in Denver. In 2015 PWC will hold meetings in: May (Grand Junction); June (Gunnison); July (Frisco); August (Durango); September (Craig); November (Wray); and December (Pueblo).
 
Beat you to it slowpoke.

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Even after all the debate on these Im not sure if I will have one on an arrow in my quiver or not.

For those that like them, do you have them on every arrow?
 
I have used them before and usually have one or two arrows. I have 3 and didn\'t use them last year. I might take a couple with me this year to Colorado. The extra info of knowing for sure where you hit would be a positive.
 
\"cnelk\" said:
Even after all the debate on these Im not sure if I will have one on an arrow in my quiver or not.

For those that like them, do you have them on every arrow?
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I buy the nockturnals in the 3 pack so I put them on 3 arrows.
The main advantage is knowing where you arrow hit the animal, the only other thing they help with is finding your arrow. They stand out good in full daylight.
 
I have never used them, but think it would help to ensure shot placement.

Also in the announcement, they are allowing electronic recording devices on the bow as well. That\'s great news for some of the video cameras that are out there. Combine the camera with the lighted nock and you will have a great production.
 
I haven\'t used them but saw an elk that was shot with one. Because of the angle of the arrow and how the bull spun, the lighted nock made it appear that the arrow hit in a totally different place than it really did. Looked like a solid gut shot, when it was a good double lung angling forward slightly. So this idea of it helping to show the hit is misleading

It did help find the broken off half of the arrow when the bull turned and ran. With a pass-through it would help with finding the arrow easier.

I\'m personally ok with it so long as they don\'t start stretching it to allow things like the GPS transmitter in the arrow and the iPhone ranging and aiming attachment for the bow (really - this does exist..).
 
\"Jaquomo\" said:
I haven\'t used them but saw an elk that was shot with one. Because of the angle of the arrow and how the bull spun, the lighted nock made it appear that the arrow hit in a totally different place than it really did. Looked like a solid gut shot, when it was a good double lung angling forward slightly. So this idea of it helping to show the hit is misleading

It did help find the broken off half of the arrow when the bull turned and ran. With a pass-through it would help with finding the arrow easier.

I\'m personally ok with it so long as they don\'t start stretching it to allow things like the GPS transmitter in the arrow and the iPhone ranging and aiming attachment for the bow (really - this does exist..).
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There is a sight that you can download for your iphone and place it in a holder. I saw it at the ATA show last year. Crazy if you ask me.
 
The iscope is a bracket that attaches to your scope and lines up the camera lens with the scope. So you are looking at your screen which is showing you where your scope is aimed. Ive never used one but I have heard about them coming in handy for young folks that have trouble looking down a scope. I saw where a guy was mentoring a young hunter in a wheelchair. He was having a hard time seeing in the crossbow scope and the iscope allowed him the chance to hunt and take his first deer.

I haven\'t heard about anything for a bow. I dont know how a phone could be used as a range finder.
 
Here\'s what the iBowsite makers are saying about their contraption:

\"In the near future, with the optional accessories, current iBowSight can have these additional powerful capabilities: auto range finding, night vision, thermal imaging, and target acquisition with an instant shooting solution.\"

Pretty much how Saxton Pope and Fred Bear bowhunted, except a little different.
 
Lou it is just about game retrieval. Now I can shoot in the evening and watch my elk run off in the night. It will now be much easier to find MY critter, so I will be able to take shots that I should never have tried before. This will be a big win for the hunters and a loss for the game. You need to git on board and join the 21 century. Now where do I purchase one of those target acquisition device things? I can hardly wait till they are on sale at MalWart.
 
Garsh, Swede, get with the program! Don\'t need to by it, just download and pay for the app and you\'re all set. I\'ll bet cnelk is already fashioning own homemade iPhone mount for the bow, handy as he is. ;)
 
Lou, I\'m so embarrassed. I forgot about that. With that addition we will be able to shoot them on the fly, even from the back of the pickup. It\'s going to be down right dangerous being an elk. :lol:
 
iPhones can be used in place of stabilizers!
Incorporate an APP that has a level indicator, distance meter, digital camera, bugle, and chronograph.

Im on it! :)
 
Now that cameras are allowed on bows, I suppose technically iPhones are too, and who is to say you\'re not using it for a sight/rangefinder?

Swede, your rotary-dial flip phone probably won\'t work for this...
 
\"Jaquomo\" said:
Swede, your rotary-dial flip phone probably won\'t work for this...
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I remember when we got our first phone. I remember the crank phone, the rotary dial phone, party lines and then private lines. I remember kerosene lamps, a wood cook stove with trash burner attached, as well as wood heating. I remember when mom got her first wringer washing machine and could retire the washboard. The road by our place was gravel surfaced. Much of what we ate, we grew. We supplemented it with venison, fish, and store bought groceries.
I was about 10 years old when dad stopped at a restaurant, while my brother and I traveled with him to see my grand parents. Dad asked my us if we wanted a milk shake. George asked \"what is that?. Being 10 gave me a one year advantage, so I knew to wait to find out, even though I was clueless what a milkshake was. I did not want to appear ignorant and unsophisticated to the waitress. What we have now is progress .... I guess, but I would go back in a minute.
Those private lines I mentioned were only for the wealthy folks. We could never afford one until they became standard. The touch tone phone was great as you could play a simple tune like, Mary Had A Little Lamb, on it. I was working before we ever got one of those. I could set my private line touch tone phone upside down on the counter, to make a flip phone, I guess. I had a bag phone and now have a real flip phone. There is no way it can be a smart phone. We have a lot in common. I am just glad Olympus Hunt and his sisters are raising my grandkids in this age of instant communications with everyone under the sun.
 
When I was a kid growing up on a farm in the northwoods \'sticks\', we didnt have running water.
We had a pump out in the barn that pumped water for the cattle, but it too sandy to drink.
That ol\' barn pump took my older sister\'s finger off too!
My mom would wash diapers in the creek until we finally afforded a well for the house.

And here we are, taking about putting phones on our bows....
 
Why, I remember back when we had to milk the horse, and we rode a goat to school.....

We didn\'t have a private line in Fort Collins until the early \'70s. Now I have a computer in my pocket that is more powerful than the ones that used to take up half a building. The joke between my wife and I is that whenever we have a question about something, we \"ask the phone\".

In one area I hunt where I have cell service I can look at GE on my phone, dial the time slider back to September 8th, 2012, and see where the camps were on that day before I decide to try someplace new. People in that area tend to camp in the same spots year after year, I\'m learning.

Amazing.
 
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