Quote Originally Posted by XJ View Post
Just the guy working the counter at the main office in Colo Spgs. I'm paraphrasing of course, but his message was clear.

I did check the online list of units and tags afterwards, and most did say private land only. For both deer and elk.
First off, there is no OTC tags for deer, besides whitetail in maybe a dozen or so units and mainly private lands. And not sure what list your looking at, maybe leftover, but there's probably about a hundred units for OTC bull tags with plenty of National forest land available for hunting.