2015 Hunt Thread!

[Mtn.man]

I'ts a POS system, both my daughter and SIL got their tags after only 3 years and both in the same year. My cuz has drawn 2 cow tags over the years.
When I went to the CPW they had nothing to say as they SUBCONTRACT the lottery to a company in TN.

[bkincaid]

I'ts a POS system .......

I think yes and no.

Looking at it from only my point of view with regards to me drawing a tag, it sucks.

Based on purely a cumulative point draw system such as deer and elk, I probably would have drawn a tag by now. This is true even with the point creep that would have occurred over all these years of applying.

However, when I look at it from my grandson's chances ( 12 years old), realistically, the current system is probably the best, if not the only, chance he'll ever have to hunt a moose here.

The first year I applied, there were 253 applicants for 3 bull tags. Last year that number was 19,957 (res and nr) applicants for 264 total tags, both bull and cow combined. Good news is that this year the proposed tags number 319.

With moose being the hardest tag to draw and with so much demand for so relatively few tags , I really don't know if there is a better draw process or not. If my grandson ever draws and I don't, so be it. I'd give up any chance I may have if I could gurantee him his tag.