RRH, I can't speak for Texas and what's going on there. The start of this thread was in response to the lawsuit by USO and other comments made about Western states. As you know since you are an avid hunter in Colorado much of our Western states are still public land. The whole reason why I started this thread was I got sick and tired of out of staters claiming they had as much right to hunt an animal as residents because the animal was on public land. The animal and land ownership are two entirely different things (Speaking about western states, not high fences. Thats a can of worms in itself) Again I'm not against non-resident tags but residents should get a garanteed majority. Public land is funded by federal dollars but game management is funded by state dollars. In my state there are still plenty of hunting opportunities for the non-resident. And like Glen pointed out a 17 year kid has just as much an opportunity to draw as Bill Gates.