cantkillathing
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I will start with the begining. It started earlier this year when Utah came out with there new 5 year elk plan. I was reading several post where there are several people on this site complaining that they want more opportunity to hunt elk in Utah. Obviously they don't understand that there is 3 to 4 times the opportunity now then there was 6 years ago. Yes if you want to wait for a Pahvant, Boulder, San Juan, early rifle tag then you will have to wait your turn, if you study the odds you know it will take a very long time to draw some of the better units, especially an early rifle tag.
I am not a rocket scientist but I was able to figure out that there is lots of opportunity out there to draw an elk tag this year. I only had 6 points for LE elk, so I knew that the San Juan, Boulder, Pahvant, mainly all the early rifle tags are out for me, if I want one then I better plan on either being extremely lucky or wait about a decade or two to draw. I looked over odds on different units from this site and found which unit and weapon I had the best chances of drawing this year. Since I only have 6 points I figured my best chances would be a late rifle tag somewhere, or an archery tag. There were several tags that gave me anywhere from 30% chance to 100% chance. Well I decided I wanted to hunt elk this year so I put in for LaSal archery elk, I knew with the odds that I would draw this tag this year. The odds said it was 100% chance. So I filled out my utah hunt application. Then the wait began, even knowing that I had 100% chance there was the chance that other people with more points would jump ship and hurt my odds.
To be Continued...............................
I will start with the begining. It started earlier this year when Utah came out with there new 5 year elk plan. I was reading several post where there are several people on this site complaining that they want more opportunity to hunt elk in Utah. Obviously they don't understand that there is 3 to 4 times the opportunity now then there was 6 years ago. Yes if you want to wait for a Pahvant, Boulder, San Juan, early rifle tag then you will have to wait your turn, if you study the odds you know it will take a very long time to draw some of the better units, especially an early rifle tag.
I am not a rocket scientist but I was able to figure out that there is lots of opportunity out there to draw an elk tag this year. I only had 6 points for LE elk, so I knew that the San Juan, Boulder, Pahvant, mainly all the early rifle tags are out for me, if I want one then I better plan on either being extremely lucky or wait about a decade or two to draw. I looked over odds on different units from this site and found which unit and weapon I had the best chances of drawing this year. Since I only have 6 points I figured my best chances would be a late rifle tag somewhere, or an archery tag. There were several tags that gave me anywhere from 30% chance to 100% chance. Well I decided I wanted to hunt elk this year so I put in for LaSal archery elk, I knew with the odds that I would draw this tag this year. The odds said it was 100% chance. So I filled out my utah hunt application. Then the wait began, even knowing that I had 100% chance there was the chance that other people with more points would jump ship and hurt my odds.
To be Continued...............................