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Lifetime Small Game and Fishing Licence — Free at 50%
A FREE LIFETIME small game and fishing combination licence at a 50% service-connected rating or a Purple Heart — and it counts as a qualifying licence for the big game draws.
Verified August 20, 2026
What this benefit is
A FREE LIFETIME small game and fishing combination licence at a 50% service-connected rating or a Purple Heart — and it counts as a qualifying licence for the big game draws.
What it's worth: A lifetime small game and fishing combination licence, free
- The licence qualifies you for the primary and secondary big game draws — it is a draw ticket as well as a licence.
Who is entitled to it
- Your service-connected rating meets the gate.
- You are a resident of this state.
Not sure whether that describes you?
Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.
How to claim it
- 1Apply through CPW with the VA disability letter or Purple Heart proof; allow 15 business days.
- 2Use it in the draws: the lifetime combo counts as a qualifying licence for primary and secondary big game draws.
- 3Take the Independence Pass too — free entry to every state park, on a 50%+ rating, loss-of-use or vision routes, or a Purple Heart, renewed every 12 months.
- Form
- CPW lifetime combination licence application
- File with
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife (cpwshop.com, email or mail)
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionWidely circulated summaries put this gate at 60%. CPW’s own page says 50% or higher — or a Purple Heart with no percentage at all.
Worth knowingThe Independence Pass is the companion benefit: unlimited state park access, also at 50%+ (or loss of use of a hand or foot, permanent vision loss, or a Purple Heart), reissued every 12 months.
Sources
- authority · published policyColorado Parks and Wildlife — Hunters with Disabilities (lifetime combination licence)
- operating · published policyColorado Parks and Wildlife — Park Specialty Passes (Independence Pass)
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