This is anecdotal. If you take the same approach on a more desirable unit/hunt (more applications) that gives less tags you’ll see that it stretches the draw out decades for current low point guys. There is no doubt giving all tags to the high point holders slows creep, but it has a cost. The cost of eliminating even the slightest chance of drawing for anyone shy of max. Then someone who truly is an opportunist has had that option removed from them. What Gundog said is correct. It only appears to be positive on lower end hunts. It is especially accentuated by the small number of guys that got sick of waiting for another tag and jumped into the draw above the crowd at the superficial max. Run it in the beaver early, Henries rifle deer, San Juan early rifle elk or better yet, the Pauns multi season deer and let us know how it looks. Going pure preference would give the low point guys their first real chance around year 2300 or so.
Simpleton/Gundog yes you are correct. I just pick the first one that I stop on it happen to be fish lake but there is a lot more that this does work on.
People have tried getting the early rifle Elk hunt moved out of September. Every time it gets brought up what about the hunters that have been applying for decades its not
fair for them.
If we are going to use the excuse that it is not
fair? Which I have heard this a million times on here and other forums.
Well to be
fair then all hunts need to got to top point holder period.
Also the hunts You did pick the hunts do have low tag quota and higher demand.
The hunts like the early rifle hunt big demand or the multi season there is only small amount of tags issued. Can it still stay at the 50/50 split probably.
The early LE rifle elk hunt is horrible odds now. With minimal tags given and the Multi season on any hunt they have horrible odds, What hunters don't realize that there is a good possibility they wont ever draw one of these in their lifetime.
Is the 50/50 split fair for higher point holders? Absolutely not and you both know it, but we sure like hopes and dreams on getting lucky.
I have done a lot of research on this. There is actually 24 plus LE Elk hunts getting rid of the 50/50 split and going top point holder between Archery/Mid/late season Elk hunts. We can knock years off the draw, just like I showed in my other post.
Why not get hunters pushed threw the system quicker. We need to quit adding years that it takes to the draw by doing this might just lower the pressure just a little on the higher demand hunts.
The GS deer draw is fair, Those tags all go to top point holders.
If you don't see the big picture here, add the 50/50 split to some of the high demand GS deer units and look how long it will take to draw those tags.