Mayja-I know quite a few people here who haven't been drawn for 10 years too. The problem is with a 35000 animal count and a couple hundred thousand people wanting to kill them. You have a 10% chance which is about what we have when you throw in the number of resident apps vs. the 7500 permits each year. I know for a fact that the majority of funds are not from out of state hunters. Our lottery is local, our purchases are local(paid from a fed agency but still local funded). We help to build the trickle tanks and other habitat improvements. Just what % of tags out of 7500 would you think is fair? We gave out 750 and added another 805 due to the USO suit. This is not a state with 200000 elk in it and if you look at a map most of it is desert so the actual hunting acreage is also limited. I do hope you and yer bro get the chance to hunt here someday just hope it isn't through USO.