Code of Colorado Regulations
400 - Department of Natural Resources
406 - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (406 Series, Wildlife)
2 CCR 406-2 - CHAPTER W-2 - BIG GAME
Article I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 209 - SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS

1. All applicants for "Private Land Only" licenses must obtain permission to hunt from at least one private landowner within the game management unit prior to hunting.

2. Private land only licenses are valid on all private land within the game management unit upon which the license holder has permission to hunt.

1. All firearms, except pistols and revolvers, carried on an OHV during deer, elk, pronghorn or bear season must be fully unloaded (both the chamber and the magazine) and fully enclosed in a hard or soft case (no scabbards or cases with open ends or sides). All bows carried on an OHV during any deer, elk, pronghorn or bear season must be fully enclosed in a hard or soft case (no scabbards or cases with open ends or sides). This regulation shall not apply to any person; any member of such person's family, or an employee or agent of the person, carrying a firearm on an OHV for the purpose of taking depredating wildlife on property owned or leased by the person, pursuant to §§ 33-3-106 or 35-40-100.2, C.R.S.

1. Except for archers hunting during a limited bear season, archers with an auction or raffle deer, elk, pronghorn or moose license hunting outside of a regular rifle season, private hunters hunting with archery equipment under the Ranching for Wildlife program, and archers hunting with an archery bear, deer, elk, pronghorn, or moose license, all persons hunting bear, deer, elk, pronghorn or moose shall be required to wear daylight fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink garments which comply with the requirements of § 33-6-121, C.R.S.

1. Mandatory CWD Sample Submissions

The Director of the Division may establish and enforce mandatory CWD submission areas for species known to contract CWD. Such submission areas may be established and enforced where necessary to meet sampling requirements, and mandatory submittal shall end when the Division achieves sampling goals, as stipulated by Division staff prior to enacting any such mandatory submission requirement. At such time that mandatory submission areas are established public notice shall be given, including posting of mandatory submission requirements in applicable Division offices and license agents, and when possible inclusion of such requirements in Division publications. Upon establishment of mandatory CWD submission requirements, it shall be unlawful to fail to submit CWD samples for the designated species harvested in designated mandatory submission areas.

1. It shall be unlawful to hunt big game over bait, regardless if the person hunting over such bait personally placed the bait or not.