To add additional context, the general tag has been creeping at an average of 0.5 points per year. Meaning it should take 6 points to guarantee the tag this year, with about 40-60% odds at 5.5 points
I can’t complain, I have hunted a number of good tags the past 5 years. It’s all about planning, patience, and a little sprinkle of luck.
Hope you get lucky in the draw.
If point creep ends up putting you below 100% odds for the tag you “should” be able to draw, then you will want to have that crazy moonshot choice in your first choice slot for the second pass.
Basically, it doesn’t hurt you at all to put a dream tag in choice 1 and the tag you “should” draw in...
Not necessarily true. A cactus buck is “any buck with over 50% of its antlers covered in velvet during season” which is well after the normal velvet shedding timeframe. It usually indicates some sort of testosterone production issue with the deer. If this buck was killed in October then it fits...
It would be a sweet combo for buck maturity: all the tags would still sell, and the people willing to buy them are likely to shoot the first forkie they see