You must be one of those people who are selfish and don't care about the future of hunting example new hunters and youth that don't get in on the ground floor on points have little if any chance too ever draw........ Do some research.....
Matt
Haha a little presumptuous. It's not like I rebuked your favorite caliber rifle.
Your comment makes me kind of want to fill out surveys just to spite you.
I am against preference point systems, but I do like bonus point systems.
Preference points is the system where the ones at the top, get the tags.
Bonus points is a lottery where those are rewarded for applying year after year with another point. 10 years of applying gives you 11 names in the hat.
It gives me a slice of hope for the year after I am unsuccessful. It gives me hope and something to work up too.
I am one of those people on the ground floor and I am for building for a hunt in the future.
I am behind points in every state, but I am willing to wait and keep applying.
It is fine by me to wait my turn while having a slight chance to draw a tag.
As for youth, I feel generally they are coddled. I remember when the youth duck hunt in Utah and it was fun, but what hooked me on duck hunting was going out with my dad as a team to try and get ducks. It wasn't about me, it was about we.
I remember waiting my turn as 14 was the legal age to hunt big game. We didn't have a youth season back then. I had to go out hunting and wait until I was older enough to hunt. The hunts before I was 14 were some of the most memorable.
I started putting in for pronghorn and buying points for moose as a youth, because it was the only tag I thing I could afford to do on a lawn mowing salary.
I expect to wait 25 - 30 years to draw a Bighorn Sheep Tag, Mountain Goat Tag, or Shiras Moose Tag.
I expect to wait 15-25 years to draw a Prime Elk Tag.
I expect to wait 10-15 years to draw a good Mule Deer Tag.
I can find other things to hunt as I build toward the future. I do not need to have everything given to me, I need to earn my tags by playing the game and trying to play the odds as best as I can.
It may be an old fashioned way of thinking, but kids should earn their keep and not be coddled as much.
I am not totally against youth only hunts, but the idea of saying we need to coddle them to pick up hunting doesn't sit well with me.
As far as research, I would be interested in some. Google is leaving me dry and hanging.
I am skeptical.
5 out of 4 people have a problem at understanding statistics.
Most states represent their numbers poorly in draw odds or success ratios, so comparative analysis would be difficult unless the person describing the situation had an understanding of statistics and made calculations of the actual draw odds for bonus/preference point states.
Matt, I'm sure you're a good dude. It's ok, if we can't see clearly on this. It's just an opinion, man.
