I looked into this some years ago. Quite a joke in my opinion as the way I understood the regs, I had to have a license # in order to just apply for a preference point. Meaning, I had to buy a nonresident license just to put in for a chance to actually hunt eventually?? Maybe I misunderstood or things could have changed by now. From what I gathered, you really have to have the down low on a honey hole to do any good on public and pressure is intense. Stinks to pay an outfitter for a hunt on private but that's the route I would go if I needed an Osceola. I was fortunate to hunt a couple huge ranches of private through friends and it was great experience.