Washington Sheep Tags

[Monsterbull11]

   Good morning,
 If you aren't aware, the 2013 Washington game regulations are on-line as of last night. Among the changes that I noticed, there was one that glared out at me. Like most of you, I've been putting in applications to hunt sheep since I could afford too (30 years). In the last few years, the odds haven't increased much to get drawn but the sheep numbers and quality are getting better and that's great. But apparently the state has noticed this also. So on the recent heals of a whole unit of sheep being killed because of a pneumonia outbreak , our beautiful game department has seen fit to take away our Asotin sheep tags and hand them to the Wild Sheep Foundation for raffle. This, to me, is completely wrong. I will be writing both the WDFW and the sheep foundation letters in the next day or so to convey my disgust of the way "OUR" sheep tags are being sold off to the highest bidder. I suggest that we all say something to someone about this. Most guys I know just don't have $50,000 to dump on a tag like this and our draw tags give all of us a shot at hunting a sheep without selling our house to do it.
  I'll be the first to admit that I don't have all the facts on this but my gut says "money grab" and that's not right.

[lokidog]

If this is true, it is definitely a bunch of BS.  I agree with you 100%

[HUNT]

I thought that the Asotin tag was for a raffle, not an auction??

[huntnphool]

Tag

[WAcoueshunter]

Yes, it's a raffle not an auction.  But I think the point is still valid - you can effectively buy a raffle by purchasing $50K worth of tickets.

[huntnphool]

Yes, it's a raffle not an auction.  But I think the point is still valid - you can effectively buy a raffle by purchasing $50K worth of tickets.

Which is why they need to limit each license holder to 5 or 10 tickets each, IMO.

[arrowflinger]

There was two tags for this area last year. Could they have split that...left one for us?


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[HUNT]

Yes, it's a raffle not an auction.  But I think the point is still valid - you can effectively buy a raffle by purchasing $50K worth of tickets.

Which is why they need to limit each license holder to 5 or 10 tickets each, IMO.

 

[elkoholic1]

Yes, it's a raffle not an auction.  But I think the point is still valid - you can effectively buy a raffle by purchasing $50K worth of tickets.

Which is why they need to limit each license holder to 5 or 10 tickets each, IMO.

 

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[Monsterbull11]

Thank you coueshunter, that's exactly what I meant. Not so good at speach make'n.

[NoBark]

Is this raffle run by WSF?   The Department raffles don't include the asotin region in any of their raffles (that I could find).     Lost the Sinlehekin as well.  Too many cougar kills there I'm thinking.

[3nails]

Yes, it's a raffle not an auction.  But I think the point is still valid - you can effectively buy a raffle by purchasing $50K worth of tickets.

Which is why they need to limit each license holder to 5 or 10 tickets each, IMO.

 

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[link]

Sounds like if they do not limit the number of raffle tickets sold to a person, it is just another auction tag. Sounds a little deceptive using the word "raffle". More than likely it will just go to another guy who buys the tag. That is another discussion all together.

[jackelope]

If that's the case I am glad I'm not a member of that organization. As was made clear the last couple years, raffle tags have become more of an auction anymore with people dropping $20-30k on raffle chances.

Booo..... put a limit on the raffle tickets that can be sold, otherwise you're taking our wild sheep hunting opportunities away from the regular guys like me.

[WAcoueshunter]

Thank you coueshunter, that's exactly what I meant. Not so good at speach make'n.

No problem, thanks for bringing it to our attention.  I agree, doesn't seem right that the only tag for an entire species can be bought.  If there's two tags, okay split them.  But if there's only one, I think it needs to be in the regular draw.