Special Permit Cost increase = less applicants?

[Birdguy]

I only apply for quality deer anymore and when I draw I may be done all together. I put the kids in for whatever they want as those prices are far better and the odds are too. My daughter turns 15 this year so I am done buying apps. for her this year but the boy has 3 more years yet. He has 5 pts this year for moose, sheep and all the deer categories (except antlerless) so he has a good chance at drawing something yet. Money is certainly the main driver but the look on his face when successful is PRICELESS  . Good luck to all who continue to put out their hard earned money, I love reading about the hunts at the end.

[snowpack]

There is also the case where the more the points cost, the more valuable it is to stay in the game.  Maybe for some it is easier to walk away from points when there is little invested in them.
I was looking at one of the reports by WDFW that had last years breakdown of applicants, and it looked like since the price increase that about 50% more applicants are getting in the game. 

[seriousconstruct]

Every year many of our hunting group members put in for all of the special permits. Now we're finally starting to draw some of them as we're getting into the double digits on points, though out of the 6-8 members we have, nearly every year we draw at least 1-2 cow tags. Year before last we drew 6 cow tags. But I fully expect that when I start to get into my second round of double digit points, I'm gonna need to prepare for a year when I draw all of them at once.

[gun-dog]

Washington's rules and regs just make me laugh.