RE: is this happening in your area?!?!?!?!
In our state the anti's were applying for controlled hunt permits. When they would get them they would never claim them and they would go to waste. Idaho fish and game dept. made a second drawing for the unclaimed tags. If they go unclaimed, they go for sale over the counter. We used to have a huge amount of tags go unclaimed. The only way the anti's can get them now is to actually pay for them in full. Otherwise they go to another person.