ridgetops
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With the rapidly increasing point creep problems on some of our deer hunting sub-units. I propose a change in the way the lifetime license holders receive their general deer tags.
- If deer season within a specific unit takes five or more preference points to draw. That season within the specific unit would then be subject to limitations.
1) No more than 5% of the total tags for that season would go to a lifetime license tag holder.
2) The dedicated hunter tags would drop from 15% to 10% for these hard to draw units.
3) No more than 5% would go to the youth only permits on these units.
That would leave 80% going to the general public. I believe this would help towards the point creep issue.
The same limitations would apply to a brand new unit. Ex. would be a LE unit that has changed to a general season unit( like the thousand lakes unit).
OR
A unit that receives greater than a 20% permit cut for that year.
To accomplish this, the LL holders would apply through the draw. They would draw first and have up to five choices to pick from.
If they choose only one hard to draw unit and didn’t get drawn, then they would qualify to get a leftover tag of their choosing.
Does this make sense?
Could something like this work?
- If deer season within a specific unit takes five or more preference points to draw. That season within the specific unit would then be subject to limitations.
1) No more than 5% of the total tags for that season would go to a lifetime license tag holder.
2) The dedicated hunter tags would drop from 15% to 10% for these hard to draw units.
3) No more than 5% would go to the youth only permits on these units.
That would leave 80% going to the general public. I believe this would help towards the point creep issue.
The same limitations would apply to a brand new unit. Ex. would be a LE unit that has changed to a general season unit( like the thousand lakes unit).
OR
A unit that receives greater than a 20% permit cut for that year.
To accomplish this, the LL holders would apply through the draw. They would draw first and have up to five choices to pick from.
If they choose only one hard to draw unit and didn’t get drawn, then they would qualify to get a leftover tag of their choosing.
Does this make sense?
Could something like this work?