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    New Mexico Resident elk tags

    It is a great system. For landowners and rich hunters. It sucks for the other 95% of hunters. Especially New Mexico residents.
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    New Mexico Resident elk tags

    I often hear this “residents can draw cow tags” justification for New Mexico’s wholesale privatization of our big game. But really what this is saying is that New Mexicans, even though they own all the elk and other wildlife, are not worthy of the highly valuable bull elk tags. Those should be...
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    New Mexico Resident elk tags

    New Mexico’s tag allocation is opaque and it is difficult to grasp the whole picture. So I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t understand the system and are not putting lipstick on a pig. But here is the complete story and statistics. Thirty-eight percent of all elk tags in...
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    2023 Montana Draw!!!!

    I don’t either. But here are my results. The deer permit I drew had a quota of 25 permits.
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    2023 Colorado Sheep & Goat Results

    You are definitely a math denier! And when you do things like draw sheep at 3+0 it just eggs you on! But draw odds are just probabilities. 0.0001 probability sometimes beats 99.999 probability.
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    2023 Montana Draw!!!!

    I draw a released combo and then drew a Deer limited permit. I’m surprised that I was able to draw a deer limited quota permit after not drawing a the combo on the first pass. Especially as a nonresident. I have two MT resident friends (his parents actually) that applied for the same deer permit...
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    2023 Montana Draw!!!!

    Perhaps you are missing the yellow box that says "enter hunter search criteria". This opens a new box where you enter your info.
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    2023 Montana Draw!!!!

    Thank you. That is what I learned, I drew the combo on a second chance because someone elected to return a combo because they didn't draw a limited permit. However, I also drew a limited deer permit. I don't understand how the system works that there was a limited deer permit available...
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    2023 Montana Draw!!!!

    I used the hunter search and am confused. Maybe someone can help me out. Under active items held it shows: Deer Permit General Big Game Combo (Released) Gen Deer License -Assoc w NR Combo Gen Elk License Under Successful Drawing Results it shows: 2023 Deer Permit XXX-XX was your 1st choice...
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    2023 Colorado Sheep & Goat Results

    3+20 for Sheep. Maybe this will be my year!
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    MT application, not wanting the tag?

    let me see if I have this right. Last year with zero pref pts I had a decent chance of drawing a gen license. This year with one pref pt I have no chance of drawing if I don’t buy another pref pt when I apply. If I buy a pref point when I apply I have a pretty good chance of drawing a gen tag...
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    MT application, not wanting the tag?

    Jeez. I have been applying for tags and points in numerous states for 30 years and MTs deer/elk system is the only one that has me stumped. I’m a huge advocate for nonresident discrimination on both quotas and license fees. But in a sane, fair predictable and understandable manner. Buying...
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    Privatization kills both Resident and Nonresident DIY hunting opportunity

    Did y’all know that compared to Arizona New Mexican issues: 47% more elk licenses, but 13% less public resident, 58% less public nonresident, and 558% more nonresident licenses (public and private). The cause? Privatization of elk licenses. Arizona has no outfitter draw set aside or private...
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    Zinke Announces Members Of The Hunting And Shooting Sports Conservation Council

    Don Peay-to-Play? We know where this is headed.
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    ESG (Environmental – Social – Governance) and Conservation Tags

    Like hell. BuzzH is justifiably a very well respected thinker on these issues. One reason this is so is that his thoughts and ideas are so logical and rational about these subjects that they leave people that don’t want to hear them only able to disparage the messenger and not the message. If...
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    ESG (Environmental – Social – Governance) and Conservation Tags

    Well said. And beyond a good audit that has well defined and exacting standards, what would a more difficult cost-benefit analysis look like? How would you even assign a value to states’ citizens using democratically allocated big game tags instead of some rich dudes from 2,000 miles away...
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    ESG (Environmental – Social – Governance) and Conservation Tags

    “With a strategy you can hunt elk and deer every year somewhere in the west”. With a strategy AND a lot of money and time. Too many of us that have a strategy, money, and time to do this miss the important fact that the majority of western state hunters do not have the good fortune to have the...
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    ESG (Environmental – Social – Governance) and Conservation Tags

    Whistle blowers are my spirit animals. I have been following this story for a few years. You pose a good question. How much of the Utah tag grift dinero makes it to The Church?
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    Take Back Your Elk

    "But they can. Because its allowed by law." is exactly what this thread is about. And that New Mexicans want that to change.
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Really? This is your logic? Believe it or not, there have been systems conceived and implemented that allocate public natural resources fairly and equitably among the public owners of the resource when public demand greatly outstrips the supply. For hunting licenses they are called public...
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