70 used to have leftovers every year. Unfortunately, now it takes several points to draw. The issue is, that the tag numbers haven’t changed much and the quality of the unit hasn’t improved. The only thing that’s changed is that more people are applying in general.
FWIW, I’d look someplace else at a different unit, or I’d hold my points and hunt someplace else for something different. I certainly wouldn’t burn 2 points and pay the special fee to hunt antelope in 70.
Personally, I’d much rather pay a trespass fee and get a tag I can draw in the regular draw vs spend that much to hunt there.
If there isn’t an antelope on the very limited public you can hunt in 70, you’ll spend your week sitting around hoping and waiting one wanders on to the ground you can hunt. There isn’t much room to get out and hike and find one in some hidden back corner. Not that you couldn’t possibly kill an antelope there, but it’s sure not what I look for in an antelope hunt. If the chunk they cut off and put into 69 was still there, I would tell you differently. We would walk that chunk of HMA every day and typically always managed to pull 2 bucks off of it in a 4-5 day hunt. We only ever killed 2 other bucks on any of the rest of the public in 70. Nothing huge but good enough for leftover tags.
