Recent content by WyomingMark

He got a Dream Tag in NV last year. It's funny how some people beat the odds every year.

Wyoming Legislature is proposing a law that would allow residents a 3 day head-start to shed hunt before non-residents were allowed to collect antlers. https://wyofile.com/shed-hunting-head-start-proposed-for-wyo-residents/

Residents are prohibited from applying for non-resident licenses... A person qualified as a Wyoming resident as defined in W.S. § 23-1-102 (a) (ix) and § 23-1-107, is not considered a nonresident for the purposes of applying for or purchasing licenses, permits, tags or preference points.

On the positive side there might be more tags available. Allocated similar to NR General Deer tags, by region. https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resources-energy/2022-10-13/the-wyoming-game-and-fish-department-is-proposing-changes-to-elk-tags-for-out-of-state-hunters

Utah's draw odds are totally misleading. The published odds are based on the humans in the application pool, which makes some sense because the tag is awarded to an actual human. BUT the real draw odds are not based on the humans in the pool they are based on the number of chances (bonus points...

60/40 split, does this mean areas with 1 tag (thinking NR units) will go to max point holders or still be allocated to random draw?

I thought I'd share these pictures, the top picture is of a 4x3 killed in 2019 the bottom is of a 4x3 killed in 2002. They were both taken in the same small range in Wyoming about a 1/2 mile apart. Both have almost the exact same brow tine configuration (& both have 3 points, minus brow, on...