Thanks for the info. I know the new system has plenty of bugs to work out. When I bought my license, both the guy ahead of me and the guy behind me were denied their doe permits. I got mine just fine. The only difference was, I asked for both my permits to be within the same WMU whereas the other guys wanted two different WMUs. Another guy I know was denied the super sportsman because he didn't have a muzzleloader permit from last year yet his son got one without a hitch.

There's another program called DMAPS that I applied for. With this system, the DEC will grant you MORE doe permits for the land you own to be used during the regular seasons. It's based on acreage. The drawback is, one hunter can only use 2 permits. The remaining permits must be allocated to other hunters. For example, we have a combined 250 acres of farmland. I can get 5 permits for this land however I myself can only use 2 of them. I asked for 4 since only myself and another person will actually use them. By supplying the DEC with the DMAPS information, they were able to also send me 5 crop damage permits that I have been already hunting with. These permits expire at the end of September and there is no allocation requirement that I could see.

-Mike