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RKenSparc
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If you look at the Utah proposed changes to the big game draw for 2005 you will notice the DWR is purposing that the Once-in-lifetime draw be combined with the limited entry draw ? so you would have to choose between ?deer, elk, antelope, moose, bison, sheep, goats, and any other species I might have missed.
My understanding is this will somehow increase my odds of whatever I apply for because the hunters will be distributed between more hunts. However they still allow you purchase preference points ? so won't this make that much harder for me to draw my elk tag, when the hunter who has been buying points for the last 8 years applies for the same hunt, because he got his deer permit the previous year? The only thing I see this change accomplishing is more revenue from the sell of preference points, and likely out of state hunters having a better chances at the very limited number of once in a lifetime hunts, because I believe most Utahns are going to apply for deer, elk and antelope tags ? leaving the once in lifetime hunts open. Contact you RAC officials if you feel the same and tell them not to do this.
My understanding is this will somehow increase my odds of whatever I apply for because the hunters will be distributed between more hunts. However they still allow you purchase preference points ? so won't this make that much harder for me to draw my elk tag, when the hunter who has been buying points for the last 8 years applies for the same hunt, because he got his deer permit the previous year? The only thing I see this change accomplishing is more revenue from the sell of preference points, and likely out of state hunters having a better chances at the very limited number of once in a lifetime hunts, because I believe most Utahns are going to apply for deer, elk and antelope tags ? leaving the once in lifetime hunts open. Contact you RAC officials if you feel the same and tell them not to do this.
