IMO big mistake unless you are on a path to draw based on having the most points/guaranteed draw at some point.
for these perpetually lottery odds tags you put in every year and be glad you ever drew even if life deals you fewer days to hunt it. You cannot know when you will draw the lucky low draw number so trashing some years is terrible strategy.
the truth is you will probably never draw so throwing away 5 years for multiple draws per year is a bad strategy. better to sort out how to make it happen on short hunting time than to never draw.
I don’t disagree. But family is more important than hunting. At this stage in life gotta keep my perspective on what matters most.
But, that said, my wife allowed almost 10 days of hunting the same fall my baby was born, and I’ll rack up 14 days this fall with a baby spanning 12-14 months over that time frame.
So, I absolutely think we’d be able to make it work if I drew a sheep tag in the next few years.
But, knowing what having multiple children under 4-5 years old requires and what a sheep tag requires, i know that I’d be a happier, healthier, less murdered person, to just avoid that. It’s not worth it. The sheep tag would just be less fun and that would be travesty in of itself. I owe it to that hunt and my family to give each their best.
On top of that, I would still die a happy man if I never get to hunt MSG. But to each their own