The $300 won’t matter because anything not sold in the early drawing gets dumped into the general draw in March at regular price - as I understand it anyways. I’m not sure what the market threshold would be before NR applicants drop significantly and I’m not sure I want to find out.
The only way I’d support this version of the bill is if unsuccessful applicants of the “early” draw were NOT eligible to apply with the peasants in March. Pick one but you can’t apply in both. I suspect the early draw will be 100% for a year or two though. All of this assumes it passes.
WY doesn’t have an “early” license per say. Just a Jan deadline with a may draw for all NR elk license. On a side note I wouldn’t be surprised if WYOGA will start cooking something up if this passes. They wouldn’t be able to stand people having an elk license in hand before they even have an...
It took me a good 10 years of marriage to learn this (slow learner). First thing i use to say was “wtf did you do that for” now I just go get the spackle....
If you don’t understand how draw odds will be affected (your point C) then I just don’t know how to explain it to you. There are several posts showing the math.... it’s easy to understand I promise.
see post 708 bullet point #3....
Sadly every state I’ve hunted has some sort of outfitter welfare with the exception of AZ and currently MT.
NM- LO tags and outfitter draw
CO- LO tags and RFW
NV- outfitter draw, LO tags
UT- CWMU, LO tags
ID- LO/outfitter tags
WY- wilderness law
Left over or not it WILL take away opportunity for a diy NR. To simplify the math if you take 14 people and apply for 10 tags your odds are roughly 70%. Now under this bill to take 6 tags out for the outfitter leaving 8 people applying for 4 tags making your odds 50%.