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Originally Posted by RZR
Get rid of the 999. You apply to build priorities and if you don’t want to pull the tag that year you don’t apply and you don’t gain any points that year. That would keep the priorities down and it would make you decide what your hunting that year. If you have enough points you could pull all your tags in one year or pull one tag and leave the others for other years, but you just don’t build priorities in the process. The thing with a random draw even the youngster’s have a chance at pulling a tag right from the get go of their hunting career. I’m all for helping the youngsters filling tags. I like watching the excitement of them pulling the trigger.
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You do realize that anyone with a clue can build priority without drawing if they choose without the priority only option. Before we had this option ,I used to build priority without drawing by just applying with someone that didn't have enough priority to draw. If the draw required five points, you could apply on your own until you had three points, then apply with someone else that had zero priority points for a few years. If you still wanted to put off drawing, you then applied with someone else that didn't have priority for a few years. It usually isn't a problem to find a friend or relative that isn't interested in a certain draw, to use to do this, it just isn't as convenient as the priority only option.
But anyone that understands math realizes that the person that uses the priority system to build points for ten years, when they could draw every five years if they wanted to, actually draws only half as many tags in that ten year period, than the person that apples to draw every year, so the person that draws only one tag in ten years, actually shortens the waiting time for the people that try to draw every year.
So if you remove that option to build priority only, the people that want to build priority only, will just apply with someone else to do it anyways, and change nothing, or they may apply every year to draw, and if they draw, they will either hunt that year, or they just won't purchase the tag, and either way you will wait even longer to draw your tag.