RE: Preference points
BBM - In the fall of 2007, I hunted Mulies for the first time in Colorado.I takes 7 years of preference points to draw unless you buy a landowner tag, which can be expensive. I hunted a small trac of private land, some BLM, and national forest.The benefit of lottery draws was there was very little pressure.
Washington State is one state that has OTC tags for Mulies, but as other said, you'll be covered up with hunters on public land.