Nevada APPS ON THE RISE

[manny15]

BIG GAME APPLICATIONS ON THE RISE
A record number of hunters applied for Nevada?s big game tags this year. Wildlife Administrative Services, the contracted vendor responsible for producing the big game draw for the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), reported 146,911 applications for the 2008 main draw, a 4.2 % increase over 2007 numbers. A total of 53,757 hunters applied in 2008, compared to 52,878 in 2007. Hunters can apply for up to seven different hunts. More than 93% of the applications were submitted online via the Internet.
While many sportsmen now wait to hear whether they can make their vacation plans around a 2008 hunt, others are setting themselves up for a hunt at a later date. More than 15% of the 2008 applications were for bonus points only.
Bonus points allow a hunter to build points toward a future draw, and allow flexibility to plan hunts around family time and other time constraints. Building bonus points early enhances the greater possibility for obtaining a tag later; and with the ever- increasing number of big game applicants, outdoorsmen should begin to build bonus points as soon as possible.
Hunters will be informed about whether they drew a tag by June 20, 2008, the information will also be posted on line at www.ndow.org and in all NDOW regional offices.

 

[ElmerFudd]

They also had to reduce tag #'s, so the guide welfare draw before the quotas are set stole an even larger % from the draw. Bogus points get more applications in, long term can't see how you are going to get more tags in your life with more applicants in the pool.....And for the really tough draws, you may have a pile of points, but so does everyone else. Who are they trying to fool? I'm sick of everyone praising how great NV's points system is. It is great for putting your $$$ into NV's coffers, that's about it. Being an addict, I still pay, but not without pitching a b**ch.

 

[Califelkslayer]

And i love Nevada's system. Can draw without points!! But not likely. I don't B**ch because it's voluntary. Glad every state doesn't use Nevada's system cause it would really be hard to plan before mid-June.

Want to B**ch? Try taxes, specifically income taxes!!!!!!!!!

 

[264winmag]

Sounds like more apps equals more hunters which equals more help in protecting our way of life?

Take a kid hunting. You will enjoy it more than they do!

 

[piper]

no, more apps doesn't mean more hunters it means more applicants. most states have made it so easy to apply that more and more people put in, many of them incouraged by magazines and other people to apply apply. support for wildlife doesn't seem to increase in nevada. I was told in a nevada game commission meeting once when I questioned the strategy of trying to get so many to apply, they said they needed to raise money somehow. yet when there is a meeting to get more elk reestablished on lands in nevada hardly any hunters ever show up.

 

[manny15]

I think Nevada is one state that isn't star struck by the almighty $, it just means more compititon.......

 

[gb2hunt]

It Is What It Is!I Never Heard Anyone Whine When A Tag Arrives At The House! Except Only When One Doesnt!Then It Is Crying Time.Good Luck.Gordon RAM4G

 

[ElmerFudd]

My point is that NV was the pioneer in raising nonresident $$$ without issuing tags You feel forced to buy in each and every year to the tune of around $250, or lose ground. You really are not gaining with the points, just treading water. That is why they do not forced to issue tags and manage for goals. They have so much nonresident $$$ coming in anyway, it does not mater. I bet they take in around $2000 for every nonresident deer tag issued. Oh well, I'd rather them get it than a tag pimp. But NV does give guide welfare and tag pimp tags too....

 

[PleaseDear]

I play the draw game by the states rules and fees.

It is a Freedom of Choice type deal for me.

If I don't like one state or another...I just don't apply.

I do throw the $262.50 every year to Nv. though. I have drawn an Antelope and a Muley tag so I am not completely 'throwing money away' every year!

$1,200.00 for an elk tag is kinda spendy....

Robb

 

[CAelknuts]

Elmer, why are you so whiny about this? Just drop out and don't apply anymore. That'll show 'em!

 

[gb2hunt]

I Second The Motion.Gordon RAM4G

 

[Hardway]

>Elmer, why are you so whiny
>about this? Just drop
>out and don't apply anymore.
> That'll show 'em!

LOL, thats what my grandfather used to tell his employes. " It's a free country, if you dont like it.....dont let the door hit ya in the arse"


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