Pronghorn

FWP has ALWAYS issued way too many antelope permits in R7. They bank on how 95% of antelope hunters operate, and the fact there's enough private land to let some of them survive. This is really nothing new.
 
There are a few extreme statistical outliers in this set of results. I’m selfishly hoping the results hold, and a correction isn’t issued.
 
Back when numbers were pretty good (20-25 years ago), they'd give 12-14K either sex permits, and I believe all (or most) those successful license holders were then offered 2 extra doe/fawn permits. Do that math. Currently (my own opinion based on small local observations) there's less than half the antelope now, and the 16K seems to be about right in line with the ratio of stupidity of offereing 30K+ tags. The craziest of all times hunting antelope I've ever seen was in the mid-late 90s over there, opening day of antelope season. The daylight eruption of gunfire across the prairie, and high speed vehicles on terrible roads and cross country with running herds of speedgoats..
 
I think the most egregious thing is only having 2 different tags for pronghorn in R7 and expecting the public to distribute in approximately the same way the pronghorn are distributed.
 

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