Ok, this is admittedly a rant.
I believe Utah has made a huge mistake with the way they did the deer tags this year for the youth. Switching to making them draw a rifle tag in order to hunt all the hunts put them in to the same fiasco/confussion that everyone else experienced with the new draw system.
We had 14 people put in for deer tags... 10 of them were kids. 1 adult (lifetime license holder) and 1 kid ended up with deer tags. Kids are the future of hunting in this country and making it harder for them to get tags is short sighted at best and stupid at worst. I don't care if I didn't draw a tag this year. But I have a teenage son who put in for general deer, premium bull and youth bull with no success. He has LOTS of things competing for his interest and with just one permit he is captured for another year, talking about and prepping for the hunt, spending time shooting, training hikes, scouting, etc. Without a tag, he moves on to other things for the summer and I worry that capturing his excitement for hunting next year will be even harder.
Just seems like Utah mistepped on the youth this year.
sled_guy
I believe Utah has made a huge mistake with the way they did the deer tags this year for the youth. Switching to making them draw a rifle tag in order to hunt all the hunts put them in to the same fiasco/confussion that everyone else experienced with the new draw system.
We had 14 people put in for deer tags... 10 of them were kids. 1 adult (lifetime license holder) and 1 kid ended up with deer tags. Kids are the future of hunting in this country and making it harder for them to get tags is short sighted at best and stupid at worst. I don't care if I didn't draw a tag this year. But I have a teenage son who put in for general deer, premium bull and youth bull with no success. He has LOTS of things competing for his interest and with just one permit he is captured for another year, talking about and prepping for the hunt, spending time shooting, training hikes, scouting, etc. Without a tag, he moves on to other things for the summer and I worry that capturing his excitement for hunting next year will be even harder.
Just seems like Utah mistepped on the youth this year.
sled_guy