There are general tags that can be drawn with under 3 pts. It’s your fault if you aim higher than that.
Limited entry odds in UT are very long. Many people will never draw a limited entry tag for males. That said UT actually has pretty decent opportunity. Your general elk tag is OTC. You can...
I wouldn’t suggest that someone who has the extra money should avoid NV in favor of scratch off tickets. I’m simply an advocate for going in eyes wide open at what the odds are of you never drawing a tag there. It’s dishonest to suggest to someone that they’ll get lucky eventually. For...
The math does not suggest that your second paragraph is accurate for non-residents. Outside of deer and antelope, even the easiest tags to draw in the state are very low odds for non-residents.
2% each for two sheep, a goat, and a bull elk for twenty years give you a 19% chance of never...
Other states should have more private elk tags.
If e-plus went away, a significant portion of those tags would just evaporate into thin air, and some private land would not longer be huntable by people who draw tags in the public draw.
Your neighbor to the west doesn’t issue private land elk...
How long was the the streak?
To draw a 1% tag in three consecutive attempts would be 1 in 100,000. I don’t know how many applicants NV has off the top of my head, but there are enough people applying in most states that the idea that someone has done that in NV seems completely plausible. More...
The new number for a NR tag is 13 not 17.
In the old version if a hint code had 10 tags, R’s got 9, Out’s got 1, and NR’s got 1 for 11 total. Now hunt codes don’t go over what’s in the book, so at 10 tags R’s get 9, Outs get 1, and NR’s get 0.
At the same time they did that, they also...
Exactly. There’s always a chance. But there’s nothing wrong with recognizing that 99 people with the same odds would not have drawn, or said another way, you could easily do that for 99 years and not draw, OR SAID MOST ACCURATELY “if you apply for a 1% odds hunt 100 times there’s a 36.6% chance...
A substantial percentage of those tags would simply evaporate into thin air, as you would not have access to that private property and they wouldn’t simply increase the tags given to hunt public land.
My preferred solution would be to force a choice. If you enter the draw, you cannot acquire...
I can fantasize about 12%-15% though right?
I fear reducing 6%/10% to 10% total would come with a HUGE price increase to make up for the 6% drop in non-resident priced tags. I guess the price increase might make odds better too.
I wonder how many new entrants realize how bad the odds are. For any of the hunts that I’m interested in, if I apply for the next 20yrs, my highest odds will be antelope with single digit draw odds. If you know that going in, and you’re still applying in the other states that you want to hunt...