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Originally Posted by albertadave
Only if you were really, really lucky. If it went to draw there would be way more than 2000 applicants. Look at the 438 draw, 3817 applicants this year alone, almost double the number of general tags sold each year. If they put it on draw across the board (and leave it at $4 application fee, which you know they would, gotta be fair for everyone  ) EVERYBODY would be putting in, even if they had never had the slightest interest in hunting sheep. |
Exactly. A draw would kill sheep hunting as we know it. The real issue facing our sheep are
Availability of food
Habitat loss
Predator control
Subsistence hunting
If we focused on those 4 problems we could increase sheep populations, horn size and opportunity all without losing a thing. But ESRD doesn't want to face the problems head on.