Gillette WY
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
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PPs are the way to go now to be able to hunt units with decent public access or that have WIHAs where the state pays ranchers to open their land to walkin hunters. A PP for antelope is $30, deer is $40, and elk are $50 and you can buy PPs during the time period of 7/1-10/31. You can only buy one a year for each species and the PP is not good until the following year. It appears that if the current Bill in the Legislature passes that there will be about a 20% increase on most license fees, which is way overdue since the last increase was ten years ago, but there is nothing as of yet to raise the actual price of PPs.
#15
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That depends entirely on what unit the ranch is located, as some are in units where no PPs are needed like unit 23. Normally the more accessible public land there is in a unit the more PPs it takes to draw a tag.
#17
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#18
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Looks like unit #3 from the state map tool on the licensing website.
What I don't understand are the draw results from 2016. Looks like they only give out ~100 licenses or so per unit. Seems kinda impossible that it's that low.
What I don't understand are the draw results from 2016. Looks like they only give out ~100 licenses or so per unit. Seems kinda impossible that it's that low.
#19
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Join Date: Oct 2013
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Why does it seem impossible? Not every area has a lot of speed goats and sometimes they have a bad weather cycle and they decrease the number of tags. Sometimes I hunt unit 12 in CO for speed goats and last year they only issued 5 buck tags and 4 doe tags for the rifle season.
#20
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Location: Allegan, MI
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I have no idea how you came up with that ~100 license per unit comment because it varies all over the board depending on the size of the unit and animal numbers. Unit 3 that you mentioned is west of Sundance up in the northeastern part of the state that's not really known as an antelope area, but it still had a total of 300 buck tags issued in 2016, of which at least 20% are offered in the NR draw. Any tags that aren't sold to residents go into the NR Draw, so many times that 20% is surpassed. It's even usually a lot higher percentage of doe tags that go to NRs in units that have a lot of tags since the residents don't take all that are allotted to them and the excess spills over to the NR Draw. Looking at the actual draw last year for unit 3 there were 240 of the 300 buck tags allotted to the residents. However, there were only 61 tags applied for by residents, so the remaining 179 tags went into the NR Draw in addition to the 60 that were the percentage originally allotted by Statute. If you want to hunt unit 3, you should have no problem getting a NR tag with no PPs.
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