You guys realize that 999 folks wait to build priority and basically pass or defer a tag every time they enter the 999 pool.
What does that do?
It allows people who want to pull a tag with the required priority to pull it. Many folks have 999'd themselves out of one, two or maybe more tags. So a person who 999's for many years has basically stood in a line and allowed other folks to go ahead in front of them. What is wrong with that?
It is better than under the old system where you HAD to pick a zone if you wanted to increase priority. That caused issues because low and behold sometime people would get picked when they knew they couldn't go. Human nature is they didn't want to miss out on a priority point so they would enter a low likelihood of being drawn zone. Instead of not entering at all and keeping the same priority level, there was this little way of growing priority and not being picked by picking low likelihood zones. You can still do it now if you want too....but that's what the 999 code is for.
999 actually helps other lower priorities get drawn. AND when a high priority decides they want to draw instead of growing priority, they deserve to because they waited as long or longer than most. Keep in mind once they draw the priority resets. So those who do not 999 likely pull more tags more often than those who do 999.
Explain what is wrong with that?
It is just "math" more hunters, more "resident" hunters, less tags...tough winters....herd dynamics have changed....culls....etc. have all had a hand in Extended wait times and changing things from "the good old days" when a guy could shoot a moose or a mule deer on a general tag almost province wide.
LC
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Last edited by Lefty-Canuck; 01-04-2016 at 08:36 AM.
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