I'm all for the points being interchangable, but that might make drawing out more difficult as people could then put one species as a first choice and another as a second. This is good for the guy with 15 points, but increases the applicants to all species and hurts those with less points. Like I said though, I think that points should be interchangeable at least once. Like with you saying that a passion could switch, I don't see why a person couldn't do a tranfer of those points at least once. MHO.
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What the heck? Is everyone gone elk hunting or why hasn't anyone bit off on commenting on this. If that is the case and nobody cares then I'll propose it as the law. 
If I remember right, the main reason for limiting it to one LE species and one OIL species was to make the odds of drawing better. How many apllicants would there be for a Pahvant elk tag or Henry deer tag if everyone could basically apply for both? The time it takes to draw a 'premium' LE rifle elk tag is 15+ years now, what would it be if all those with 8+ deer points jumped over? My biggest hangup in truth is the waiting period. I can't think of how you could enforce it if you let someone apply for deer after drawing an elk tag, then five years later switching back to elk. That is the same as having no waiting period, which would INCREASE the number of apllicants by roughly 30,000 just for elk. If you change your mind from deer to elk, you have to weight your options and then decide, IMHO. I don't see this EVER getting pushed thru, but good luck if you persue it. Of course now that I have voiced opposition to it, wyo2ut will be on board with you.
PRO
PRO
There have been two catagories for some time, meaning the seperation of OIL's and LE's. The opportunity to put in for one animal in each catagory has been in place for some time. I just makes sense to me to let a person use there points within that catagory use them for which ever species that they want within that catagory.
I can't believe all of the idiots...........I mean people that screwed up their points witht the AR301. I have spoken with many as of late. (Joking, Joking, Joking with the idiot comment.)
I can't believe all of the idiots...........I mean people that screwed up their points witht the AR301. I have spoken with many as of late. (Joking, Joking, Joking with the idiot comment.)
On the waiting period they could make you wait on both species you were switching between. Mabey go 2 years on 1 and 3 on the other to split it or even do 5 years on both.
As far as having 30k more elk hunter apps wouldnt that make it 30k less deer/speed goat?
Mabey that last comment was if you could put in for all species?(I just read Pro's comments again and he was talking both species at the same time. My Bad )
I personally have only drawn out for a cow elk in 7 years and this year alone I put in for 8 hunts. Previous to this year I was one of those people that complained about the system. My brother this year drew out for a Desert Big Horn sheep tag. He drew it with 6 points. Was this fair? After all this is a draw. I am sure all the Sheep hunters with max points would not care for someone with 6 points to draw the tag before them.
I would like to see more opertunity for LE hunts but am on the fence for the right approach.
As for 5k less Rifle tags and 10k more archery tags, that is a skewed view. My father doesnt hunt with archery equipment so now that would lessen his hunting opertunity.
I look at it as less is more. If you had a waiting period for deer and elk tags in the general season then you would have less hunters with higher success. IMHO
Do a waiting period of 1 year for each species and alternate every year so you would hunt deer 1 year and elk the next. I just dont see how they would do it with revenue? I would pay the extra to off set the cost personally.
Russ
As far as having 30k more elk hunter apps wouldnt that make it 30k less deer/speed goat?
Mabey that last comment was if you could put in for all species?(I just read Pro's comments again and he was talking both species at the same time. My Bad
)I personally have only drawn out for a cow elk in 7 years and this year alone I put in for 8 hunts. Previous to this year I was one of those people that complained about the system. My brother this year drew out for a Desert Big Horn sheep tag. He drew it with 6 points. Was this fair? After all this is a draw. I am sure all the Sheep hunters with max points would not care for someone with 6 points to draw the tag before them.
I would like to see more opertunity for LE hunts but am on the fence for the right approach.
As for 5k less Rifle tags and 10k more archery tags, that is a skewed view. My father doesnt hunt with archery equipment so now that would lessen his hunting opertunity.
I look at it as less is more. If you had a waiting period for deer and elk tags in the general season then you would have less hunters with higher success. IMHO
Do a waiting period of 1 year for each species and alternate every year so you would hunt deer 1 year and elk the next. I just dont see how they would do it with revenue? I would pay the extra to off set the cost personally.
Russ
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