Its public land that is State ran and managed. They use a strict resident only draw system to issue the tags. Its public land, who gets what as far sa money I don' t know and could care less about. I submit $$ for a tag - no different than AZ or CO or KS. Theres not much more to it than that ... except its not well known. Truth is, I drew the tag without knowing what it was - and wish I had 2 weeks of vaction to hunt it !


I don' t agree. Money has nothing to do with it. Luck of the draw will get you a tag, but everything else is no different than where you hunt - except the chances of seeing a large buck is higher because of the way its managed.

This isn' t a farm, or a ranch, or anything like that, so the question was irrelevant really. I have never had a guided hunt. I have paid tresspass fees twice. Everything else has been public land hunting, do it myself. I' ve had some great success too.

Again, just because you are not familiar with these places - honey holes that are out of the way and not well known, does not mean they don' t exist. Like my examples of McAllister OK military base, special KY elk draws, city limit archery onl whitetail draws, Edmonton tags ... theres a long list. Did you know that in the White Sands missle rangd in NM you can draw for an Oryx (gemsbok) tag ? Its $1500 (or was last time I tried drawing) but where else can you hunt free roaming oryx in the US ? Many people do not know that tag exists, doesn' t mean it isn' t there though.

Your babe analysis is again, irrelevant. I didn' t pay to hunt this place, its not a ranch hunt nor is it fenced or anything like that. Its just a big piece of land that was set aside as public and a management plan was attached to provide resident archery hunters with a chance at a 150" -230" or better whitetail for a small tag fee - a hunt like Bill Jerdun goes on in the Milk River areas and in Texas - but without the fences and all that.