GilaJeff
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Well, it is application time again in AZ, and I just get really hacked off this time of year due to what happened to me four years ago. I was working and living in AZ at the time, and had some wonderful hunts there. My job was requiring me to relocate to Washington State, about four years ago. I really wanted to purchase a lifetime license before I left, so I called the AZDGF office in PHX. I asked how to go about buying a lifetime license. I was told to just stop by, show your driver's license, and pay the $$$. I told the person on the phone, that I lived in Round Valley. So they said, well just stop by the Pinetop office and they would take care of me. I figured on my way out of town, I would stop in and buy the license. Well, and the day I was leaving AZ, I stop by the Pinetop office, and am told that I need a an affidavit declaring my residency, notarized by a Notary Public. What the hell? Why didn't the PHX office tell me that? I was so stressed from having to move and I HAD to be in WA Sunday night (This was a Friday afternoon). I just couldn't take the time to go round up a Notary Public file the affidavit, etc. So I headed out for my new job without my lifetime license. Now, it is apparent that unless the NR draw rules change, I will have little chance of ever drawing the premium deer hunts I have been waiting for. I know there is talk about amending the % allocation to for NR tags, but who knows what will happen. I just needed to vent folks. Anyone have any ideas? Sorry for sounding like a crybaby.