Originally Posted by
txhunter58
Other then the one year they screwed up the drawing, the backdoor has always been accurate for me. Wishful thinking since you don't show a tag?
I got lucky and got my point!
I've seen the backdoor be wrong several times, once for bighorn. The backdoor showed I drew but I still got a refund check and a weighted point. Until the tag shows on the anticipated draw date I don't put much faith in the back door, been burned more than once and that is why the backdoor isn't the official result.
That being said I know I'll get my tag since I always put in for a private land tag on the eastern plains and that tag is always undersubscribed and I have 10,000 acres to hunt on. I always get a point as first choice and that tag as second choice. I've got something like 15 points right now and not sure when I'll cash them in. Got 21 for elk too.
Getting a point isn't "lucky." Everyone that doesn't draw first choice gets a point every year they put in.