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Attached is a letter I wrote regarding how the archery mule deer draw was imo improperly forced on resident hunters without first considering other users.
I thought some on here may like to read my take on the story. From the letter... Quote:
Again, this is my interpretation of the injustice that has lead to this proposed change. |
Amazing work deer hunter...have the changes been finalized or are they still on the table?
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in other words, its not too late to write a letter to represent your feelings on this. |
Bump for more awareness.
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"Further, 16,716 resident bowhunters hunted in mule deer in 2011 (under the general archery season). This compares to 13,454 succesful applicants in the antlered mule deer special license (- rifle season, out of 64,519 applications). This shows that there are more hunters utilizing the general bowhunting antlered mule deer opportunity than are currently successful in the resident/non-resident antlered mule deer (rifle) draw system. " So aproximately 13,000 rifle hunters (from a much larger pool) had to run the draw gauntlet to get a crack at a 1 month season, but 16,000 bowhunters could just walk on with no draws and hunt for 3 months... On the surface that seems to me to be exactly why draws need to be applied to bowhunters. Obviously, however, it would be good to know what the hunter success rates are. If bowhunters are successful 1% of the time then let them hunt all year round with no draw for all I care, but all those bowhunting shows and commercials suggest the success rate is higher. LOL :) |
I see where your coming from.
the harvest rates are figured from harvest surveys and an archery harvest over 15% by WMU could propose an archery draw. Yet the harvest numbers from outfitters and landowner tags do not appear to be used when calculating the percentage. And these are signifigant harvests given the number of tags they have by WMU. |
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:D Yikes...he he |
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For the short term I understand there is not a separate pool. For the future? I have heard some rumbling that it might happen.
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I have heard this all is around the IBM RELM system and the expense required to add a separate draw code.
And without a separate draw code, there may be no resident bowhunters hunting that year in certain WMU's. Oufitters will still continue to be able to use their bow allocations and this proposal becomes beneficial to them. To me, this is a clear loss of resident opportunity. Must be why Rhino likes it. :) I feel we need to get the other users in line with Policy before they beat back residents. Residents are forced to deal with harvest % in WMU's which are easliy outlined. Outfitters use the SMA black box to try to muddy the waters. And their harvest % dont matter and arent described in the proposed AESRD archery mule deer draw study/proposal. Does anyone know which WMU's make up the SMA's? It is a big secret. |
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You seem to be pretty emotional about all this. Why the attitude? Thanks for the insult. What did I ever direct at you personally This debate has finally proven to be a complete waste of energy. |
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On the last set of data....
It would be nice to see the actual tag numbers depicted for outfitter. The % is a little misleading. If someone is skimming they might tag it for total tags. I had to do a double take. So in a zone that has 30 tags the outfitter has 12%...which would be approximately 4. I don't really see the problem. Someone else might.. and that would be their opinion. |
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Pretty sure if you read my prior post I said "mostly different customers". It is hard for a guy to repeat with the same outfitter unless they have the money to deposit for upcoming years. Tags are often sold through booking agents or the outfit. So my unanswered question to you guys is should we allow Americans to apply in the draw and abolish outfitter allocations. They are nice enough to allow us to hunt and draw down there. Your thoughts.
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