Flatlander

Ok - beware, here comes the zombie thread (Maybe it should be pinned). So I am reviewing the NR Special PP Draw Report and it looks to me like last year in the special draw with 4 pts you could draw any tag. Am I reading this correctly? https://wgfd.wyo.gov/web2011/Departments/Hunting/pdfs/DRAW_ANT_PP_NONRESSP_20140005880.pdf

My heart is breaking for you and all those missed opportunities.

How' the recoil with that brake?

Surprise, surprise! Haven't you had a tag every year for the past 30 years? Why do you even bother checking?

A couple weeks ago I dropped under 200 for the first time since college. Saturday I stepped on the scale at the gym and saw something I had honestly given up on ever achieving again 188.5 lbs. the first time I have been under 190 since I got married 9-1/2 yrs ago.

Picked up a Triclawps in the silent auction for $50. I was second bidder on the elk tag. $235k is more than my second mortgage would cover.

I would love to get my hands on that M 70. Just not in the budget at the moment

Accu trigger?

If you applied electronically the CC you used to apply may show a charge from AZGFD now. All antelope hunts, and almost all elk hunts can only be drawn as a 1st or 2nd choice on your application. So if you have a charge on your credit card for either $135 or $90 you Basically know that you have drawn one of two hunts at most.

This will last a while. And there is not any rhyme or reason as to how they hit cards from what I have been able to gather over the years. Antelope tags, bull tags, cow tags they all start showing up at once and with last names from a-z. Don't lose hope, I won't be.

The wife and SIL have some cow tags. Still waiting on an archery bull tag for me and a buddy.

5-10 days usually but the biggest volume is in the first few days.

Can't wait!

That's an awesome bull

Screen shot or it didn't happen

Bums

Atleast now we can watch our brackets go down in flames instead of checking out bank accounts every 10 minutes

The success in dec/jan would be much higher, and therefore removing 100 tags in Oct/Nov would translate to around 50 tags in Dec/Jan. This means less "Opportunity" (and revenue and everything else that goes with it). It can be done, it just doesn't translate 1:1.

I would be THRILLED if they cut maybe 100 of the 875 unit 7 rifle mule deer tags to make way for December archery. According to reported success that would mean 20 fewer bucks would be harvested on the rifle hunt, and only a fraction of that number would be harvested by bow hunters. So tell me again, who loses in this situation? I mean other than the guy who chooses to go hunt deer with his bow in sub freezing temps?

How am I supposed to know whether or not I need to bid on the commissioners tag if credit cards don't get hit before the AES banquet?

If this hunt was in addition to the August hunt, I would be all for it. I would not want to give up August to get December.

^^^^^ Do what this guy says

how does that saying about the white spec on top of chicken poo go? It's still chicken poo or something like that.

Great. It's going to be a while.

Coach - I feel your pain, literally. When I seperated mine I was a college student with just the insurance from my wife's job. I paid $20 3x a week for several months. I quit before it was complete because I graduated and took a job out of town. Two weeks later someone grabbed my arm and pulled it right back out. I never went back to PT and I regret it all the time now. Missing that vacation will be tough, and the money is a tough pill to swallow, but it will be worth it. You will have grandkids you are going to want to pickup someday. You are going to want to bow hunt when you are retired and lift a fly rod over your head. Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want right now.