CO RFW Blue Gravel & Big Gulch

Looking for any information about CO RFW properties Blue Gravel and Big Gulch for potential mule deer hunt that will use all of my 6 pref pts.
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go on the dow web site and read the rules for those two ranches there . go on the site huntodds.com and check out the preference points needed for those ranches . hiker showed me the site huntodds.com and it is full of helpful information , thanks hiker .
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Hiker
300WinMag, Welcome to MuleyMadness! :)
I hunted Big Gulch a couple of years ago for elk. I saw a few bucks and one shooter. Dick Dodds from Elk Horn Outfitters heads up Blue Gravel and works with Big Gulch too. He's a nice guy.
Zatarain, Good to see you the other day, thanks for coming up and I'm glad you like http://www.huntodds.com.
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Will definitely check out huntodds.com and have e-mailed Dick Dodds directly, hoping for a reply!

Hiker, what where your overall impressions of those ranches? Is it worth 6 pref pts? I've heard both good and bad stories about RFW. I'm a DIY public land kind of guy who's looking for something better than all of the overcrowding and hunter pressure I've run into the last 2 yrs.
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Hiker
.300WinMag, You should able to find a decent buck on those ranches, if you hunt hard and get away from the roads. With 6 PP, you can apply in many units and shouldn't have that many other deer hunters and should see shooter bucks. I'd just stay away from unlimited over-the-counter elk units.
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300winmag , the way rfw was descibed to me was a win win case for everybody . a dow employee told me before you put in for the draw in for rfw , read about the ranch on the dow website . then if you put in and draw the ranch , you can hunt on that ranch property . being that these ranches get land owner vocher too , you will be on the ranch with high paying hunters who want to hunt on that ranch . now depending on how the ranch operates you may be able to go anywhere on the ranch and hunt or if the ranch sections up the property and puts numbers in the hat and holds a drawing to determine where the hunters will hunt . but either way you are still hunting on some prime private property .
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