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By Madelynn FelletPublished: Aug. 17, 2021 at 4:37 PM PDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – For its third consecutive year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is rewarding hunters for sharing their expertise and love of hunting with others.

CPW is encouraging hunters to take a friend hunting by entering their contest. Experienced hunters who take the time to pass on their knowledge to novice hunters and submit a photograph and brief story about their experience will be entered to win prizes. Photograph and story submissions will be judged by their ability to inspire.

“I often run into people wanting to hunt but they just don’t know how to start. Most of them just need a mentor to help out,” said CPW Hunter Outreach Coordinator Bryan Posthumus. “It is so easy to ask your friends, co-workers, or family if they want to hunt and help them get started. Quite a few started out small game hunting. Many of the hunters last year are planning on hunting with their new hunting buddy this year.”

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Mentors can take a beginner hunter out or mentees can encourage an experienced hunter to teach them how to hunt and enter to win some great prizes by submitting a photograph and brief story of their time out in the field. Registration opens Aug. 1, 2021 and will remain open until Feb. 28, 2022, submissions are due on the same date. Prize drawings will be made March 31, 2022.

To be eligible to enter:

• Mentors must be at least 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and must hold a valid 2021 Colorado hunting license (the “hunting license”).
• Mentors must have held a Colorado hunting license in at least 3 of the last 5 years (2016-2020).
• Mentees must also be 18 or older at the time of entry and hold a valid 2021 Colorado hunting license.
• Mentees must also either have:
  • Never had a hunting license until 2021,
  • Only had a hunting license in 2020 (e.g., a second-year hunter) or
  • Not had a hunting license in the past five consecutive years (i.e., since 2016).

Both individuals must follow rules and regulations in the 2021 Colorado Hunting Regulations; this includes possession of all appropriate licenses. Employees of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and their immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee, are not eligible.ADVERTISEMENThttps://016bfe33ed152f9a16051a124e8e2e20.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

Contest participants must follow all applicable Colorado hunting regulations.

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded at the end of the contest to winners of the photo/story competition. All prizes are non-transferable. No substitution may be made except as provided. The winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use.

For more information and to register for the contest, please visit cpw.state.co.us/takeafriendhunting.