Thill
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Point creeping cannot stop until the applicants start using the points.
Point banking offers the opportunity to start shedding points. I believe point banking will benefit some and will in the short run facilitate point creep until the model has time to work its self out. The biggest winners will be all of the point holders in no man's land 10-20ish points. I personally have a couple of buddies that are in that group and they now have realized that statistically they would die before pull the coveted tag. Bank pointing would benefit them in the fact that one of them said he would start shedding points by purchasing cow tags to scout other units to replace this abandoned dream. Of course this means the it might take an extra point for cow tags in the unit or units they are looking at.
I surmise all of the applicants in no mans land would not have started collecting points if they knew they would not have a chance to ever go on the hunt. We are moving in a rough direction with CWD/wolves/declining herds/increasing outdoor recreation.
Fair or not we have to start somewhere.
Hopefully one of the other focus groups can address the OTC tags or OTC tags with caps. As long as these options exist the majority of these point holders will continue to hunt every year and gain points(facilitating point creep) as they still hunt every year.
Remember point banking was part of the agenda that the CPW sent to me and the other attendees. Don't completely blame me, but I did select it as an option I would support since several of mu ideas were off the table for discussion.
I am going to start a new topic in a few minutes - Point Banking.
Point banking offers the opportunity to start shedding points. I believe point banking will benefit some and will in the short run facilitate point creep until the model has time to work its self out. The biggest winners will be all of the point holders in no man's land 10-20ish points. I personally have a couple of buddies that are in that group and they now have realized that statistically they would die before pull the coveted tag. Bank pointing would benefit them in the fact that one of them said he would start shedding points by purchasing cow tags to scout other units to replace this abandoned dream. Of course this means the it might take an extra point for cow tags in the unit or units they are looking at.
I surmise all of the applicants in no mans land would not have started collecting points if they knew they would not have a chance to ever go on the hunt. We are moving in a rough direction with CWD/wolves/declining herds/increasing outdoor recreation.
Fair or not we have to start somewhere.
Hopefully one of the other focus groups can address the OTC tags or OTC tags with caps. As long as these options exist the majority of these point holders will continue to hunt every year and gain points(facilitating point creep) as they still hunt every year.
Remember point banking was part of the agenda that the CPW sent to me and the other attendees. Don't completely blame me, but I did select it as an option I would support since several of mu ideas were off the table for discussion.
I am going to start a new topic in a few minutes - Point Banking.