Originally Posted by
the blur
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.
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.