The interest earned IS insignificant.
Lets use 2015 numbers:
A total of 132,587applicants for all the fall hunts.
18461 applied on paper. For the sake of argument, lets say they ALL applied for elk. That would be $144 x 18461= $2,658,384 in checks they are "holding". Interest is accrued for the amount of money in the account on the last day of the month. Sooooooo even if G& F held onto it longer, it would only be a couple hundred dollars in interest per month (interest does not accrue daily in in a savings or checking account.
However....that would leave 114126 apps that they have NOT collected money from yet. That = $16,434,144 that is just waiting to go into their account. That is CONSIDERABLY more money that could be earning interest.
Soooooo, IF they were doing this to make more interest on "my money", it would behoove them to run the draw and hit my card as soon as they could.
BUT, it is all irrelevant as the draw date DOES NOT affect when they send back checks. They will make the EXACT same amount of money in interest on the check whether they do the draw two weeks from now or two weeks ago.
Yes, I am bored and want to know if I am going hunting this fall...
