>>>LAST EDITED ON Feb-08-19
>>>AT 06:24?PM (MST)
>>>
>>>
>>>>My understanding of landowner permission tags
>>>>is that they aren't given
>>>>to a landowner. They are
>>>>given out in the normal
>>>>draw, but if you put
>>>>in for those tags you
>>>>can only hunt private land
>>>>and will need landowner permission
>>>>to get the tag. Is
>>>>that wrong? Everybody here seems
>>>>to be talking like they
>>>>are tags given to landowners
>>>>to sell, but that wasn't
>>>>my understanding.
>>>
>>>I know from personal experience I
>>>was given a landowner voucher/form
>>>from the landowner. Which I
>>>took to the IDFG office
>>>and was issued a tag.
>>> Had his signature, IDFG
>>>and a spot for my
>>>signature/info. I dont think
>>>they can legally sell the
>>>tag. Maybe they can
>>>sell access and just give
>>>away the tag?
>>>
>>>Also my tag was good for
>>>private land only. Any
>>>private landowner with permission not
>>>just the issuing landowner.
>>
>>They legally cannot be sold, and
>>they are not distributed via
>>a drawing. Landowners get
>>them and distribute to who
>>they want. I find
>>it particularly troubling they pull
>>this crap on hunts where
>>demand for the tags is
>>high...meaning there are lots of
>>hunters willing to help out.
>>
>
>Landowners don't get the tags, landowners
>sign a voucher that you
>then take to f&g to
>get the tag. The unfortunate
>part of the whole process
>is I suspect a lot
>of the landowners charge a
>hefty trespass fee. When I
>went asking around about landowner
>permission tags a few years
>back essentially all the landowners
>I talked to told me
>what horrible ethics and sportsmanship
>the guys they gave tags
>to displayed, when I suggested
>that I would respect their
>land and animals they shrugged
>it off and said ?no,
>we like the guys who
>hunt here now?
Semantics...land owners 100% control who gets the tags, and they can keep them to themselves as well.