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Originally Posted by Pikebreath
From the 2019 Regs under Propoded Changes:
...Beginning in spring of 2020, in order to reduce draw wait times and encourage draw applicants to actively hunt in the upcoming season, hunters must purchase a Wildlife Certificate prior to applying for a special licence draw. Currently, approximately 25% of draw applicants do not purchase their Wildlife Certificates for the year of application, which, depending on the type of draw, may increase draw wait times.…
Not sure how many of the 25% applicants who do not buy a wildlife certificate are "antis",,, but I suspect there are lot more "significant others" and other family members in this number than "antis". Reducing "bulk family" applications should help.
If we assume that tag allotments are going to not change significantly,,,at the end of the day the best way to reduce draw times is to reduce the number of applications being made annually. We may need to look at caps on how many applications an individual can make in any given year.
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So your proposal is that we not be allow in the same year to both enter a moose draw and say an elk draw???
I trust we all understand that a 999 means that person is not stress not in the draw. Meaning they are not affecting the wait time. When they finally do draw their priority 15 and your priority 3 are both worth only one tag each one animal each. So if you watch the draw stats on Mywildalberta you can predict with relative certainty went your level of priority will draw a tag. So if it requires a 3 and a 15 puts in that year, it means the person with 15 has waisted roughly 12 years of points which would be the equivalent of roughly 4 tags more that your 3 point rotation was able to pull. So if you watch those stats and appropriately rotate your draw you pull 4-5 tags where the 15 point person only pulled one tag. The use of 999 doesn't change anything for those of us who plan to hunt and consequently enter a draw.