At least your kid will likely have a shot at a tag at age 60. If it were completely random then odds are they would never draw a random tag with 1 in 2000 odds. The funding these points generate help keep your resident hunting prices much lower. Want to pay $500 to go elk hunting as a resident?
NR need to learn how to trade hunt services as the statute allows for you trading guide services. “An exchange of guide services shall not be considered compensation for the purposes of this section.”. Fishing, hunting or anything where a Guide would be beneficial can be exchanged in exchange...
No, the residents of Wyoming took back what was far too generous for decades and fixed it.
“And yes, for Rams & mountain goat, the preference tags ("bonus permits") have not happened at all in recent years. Only the regular permits (awarded simple bonus style) have been awarded. But when a 2nd...
In other words, Utah uses a bonus/random system for all Sheep hunts. No preference at all for top point holders and rare that anyone with more than 20 points ever even draws a OIL tag. A few years ago a greenhorn drew with ZERO points and last year one applicant only had 4 points drew a Desert...
Utah had 5 total NR hunters who were awarded Desert Sheep. Not a single top point holder or even anyone with 20 points or greater was awarded a tag even though 12 applicants now have 29 points. Utah certainly does not utilize a preference point system in any way, shape or form when it comes...
Your trying to change how states operate their point systems is becoming ever more clear. Utah has NO PREFERENCE POINT system on any LE or OIL hunts. The only system they use a Preference point system is for General Buck deer. Trying to redefine and fantasize about how states should operate...
You have it backwards for Utah. Most OIL hunts in Utah only issue one tag and it is usually issued in the random draw. Many times a greenhorn with no points draws while bonus point holders are passed by the random applicant. This sucks as when they only have 1 permit offered which is the...
Colorado CPW awards preference points by species. When you don't draw your first hunt choice, you automatically earn a preference point, https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/BigGameLicenseOptions.aspx