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<blockquote data-quote="davkrat" data-source="post: 954338" data-attributes="member: 6452"><p>I would never argue against the need or implementation of any draw for extremely limited tags. Not sure how AZ does it but here in CA it is not uncommon for there to be only 4 tags per area each year. 3 out of those 4 tags are only available to max point holders the thousands of the rest of us are limited to one random tag. Even the max point holders that were not drawn get tossed into that single random draw. </p><p></p><p>Last year there were around 13000 applicants for 19 tags. 11 of those tags were only available to the max point holders of which there were 2431 max point applicants. At the rate of 11 tags a year it's going to take 221 years for the max point applicants to be exhausted. Then you would simply go down to the max points minus 1 group which kicks you back in to a few thousand applicants. If you were stupid like me and didn't get in at the beginning of the draw system or a new hunter like my kids there is no hope of you ever being a max point holder. The majority of even the current max point holders will probably take their points to the grave with them. If a guy applied every year he could maybe hope to simply out live his competitors and end up in the max pool sometime in his 70's. Don't know how many 70 year olds can hike up and down mountains for sheep? </p><p></p><p>Would be nice if they had a 20-30 year old bracket. Let some kid out of college play the lottery. You'd pretty much be guaranteed to have max points on your thirtieth birthday. Or maybe just offer one or two junior hunts for 12-18 year old again you would at least have a chance at max points in your lifetime.</p><p></p><p>I don't remember what state it was but one of them supposedly gives you one number in the draw for each point you have. If you had 50 points you have 50 chances to have your random number come up. That seems much more fair than holding 3/4 of tags for a select few.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davkrat, post: 954338, member: 6452"] I would never argue against the need or implementation of any draw for extremely limited tags. Not sure how AZ does it but here in CA it is not uncommon for there to be only 4 tags per area each year. 3 out of those 4 tags are only available to max point holders the thousands of the rest of us are limited to one random tag. Even the max point holders that were not drawn get tossed into that single random draw. Last year there were around 13000 applicants for 19 tags. 11 of those tags were only available to the max point holders of which there were 2431 max point applicants. At the rate of 11 tags a year it's going to take 221 years for the max point applicants to be exhausted. Then you would simply go down to the max points minus 1 group which kicks you back in to a few thousand applicants. If you were stupid like me and didn't get in at the beginning of the draw system or a new hunter like my kids there is no hope of you ever being a max point holder. The majority of even the current max point holders will probably take their points to the grave with them. If a guy applied every year he could maybe hope to simply out live his competitors and end up in the max pool sometime in his 70's. Don't know how many 70 year olds can hike up and down mountains for sheep? Would be nice if they had a 20-30 year old bracket. Let some kid out of college play the lottery. You'd pretty much be guaranteed to have max points on your thirtieth birthday. Or maybe just offer one or two junior hunts for 12-18 year old again you would at least have a chance at max points in your lifetime. I don't remember what state it was but one of them supposedly gives you one number in the draw for each point you have. If you had 50 points you have 50 chances to have your random number come up. That seems much more fair than holding 3/4 of tags for a select few. [/QUOTE]
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