31 must be the NR spill over unit. I got my unit 31 tag today as well. I am pretty excited about the hunt.
NMpaul, I think I have said this before just to be shot down because it is not a western state. Apply over here in Oklahoma as a NR any day you like, nobody has a better chance than anyone else. NR has the same chance as a resident. Each year, on one particular hunt, 31,000 people try to draw 75 Either sex elk tags on one set of hunts. Our odds are real good
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One funny thing I have noticed in a lot of NR posts is that not very many of them are insisting on 22% of the tags. In fact, as long as you have more deer tags available than Deer applicants, then I figure the state should kick out a "How-To" on putting in for the NM draw.
As for elk, I personally think there should be a change made to the LO tag system first. Along with the change should come some sort of improved depredation program. I understand that technically the LO tags never really came from the "draw tag pool", but I am sure they could add them in. Take your home unit for example. There are just as many LO tags given out in that unit as there are NR tags, and actually just a few more tags if memory serves me right. One ranch in your unit gets 56 tags. Screw the NR with guides, my stance as stated before was to get rid of the NR guided tags and make the NR tag pool 15-18%, that seems pretty fair to me.
This is all just my opinion and we all know about opinions. They are just like ***holes, we all have one.