new topic allright !! mutiseason license

[sakoshooter]

 The entire 'multi-season' license is a Cash Cow for the WDFW. I got that straight from the WDFW the first year they ran/ripped us off with it.
Many of you on here have stated that you'll pay anything for licenses and tags in WA. If I had that kind of money, I'd be spending it in another state with better hunting and a Game Dept that truly cares about it's game and it's hunters.
Putting in for the multi season license with no intention of buying it is no different than everyone that fills in all 4 spaces on a special hunt app with no intention of hunting any of them after the first one.

[CAMPMEAT]

I've got 12 points for elk, honestly. Where should I apply, why and I want to know where your honey holes are ?

C-post unit.

Thanks. I knew I forgot that one for answers....

[pd]

Oh yeah I forgot, it finally broke the ceilling.

Congrats washelkhunter, you screwed 92 folks   

Actually, it turns out that he did not "screw 92 folks."  Here is why, from the statistics' link above:

1888   MULTISEASON DEER   
Total Permits: 8,500   
Total Issued:  8,500   
Total Applications: 8,593   
Not selected: 93
4999   POINTS OPTION: 171

So, you see, of the 8,500 permits available, WDFW actually sold all 8,500 of them.  171 applicants lost out (RadSav included).  WashElkHunter is out the $6.60 it cost him to apply, but even though he might have been selected, because he didn't purchase by the deadline, somebody else got his tag.  The state lost nothing, all 8,500 winning applicants purchased their multi-season tag.

[bobcat]

I seriously doubt that all 8,500 multi season deer tags were sold. That info you put up only says that 8,500 permits were issued, not 8,500 TAGS WERE SOLD.

[Jonathan_S]

I seriously doubt that all 8,500 multi season deer tags were sold. That info you put up only says that 8,500 permits were issued, not 8,500 TAGS WERE SOLD.

   I doubt they went from selling a few thousand to 8,500

[LeviD1]

I wish people would stop putting in for it for a couple years to make them drop the price. I would like to put in for one but cant justify spending that kind of money. So all you guys that buy one stop doing it for a while will ya! 

[cryder]

Soooo ,Again ive stepped on the modern guys abit strong ,and for that im well ( thinking;;;;; )Anyways, 6 years ago in my place of elk persuit g.m.u. 364 I was left on a trail at 430am ,I knew where I was headed in the dark ,we had walked it the day before,not even 20 minutes into the walk with it still dark , aside from the moon,a gun goes off the half tree stump 15 yards in front of me takes a pounding and so does the ground below me cuz I think im dead,as I lay there in cover the fool shoots again !! I hear the shot hit canvas,or so I used to say when I thought rifle hunting was hunting.After the commotion I headed the rest of the way up the canyon,by the timei got to the top it was daylight im late and the hillside looks like a moveing pumpkin patch,sure ive heard use the heard but this day put a end to rifle hunting for ever !!The funny thing is I recognized the brown tocoma across the road from our main camp as they werte getting busted for hanging a spike with a hanger on it !!fool went to jail where he belongs.   BOWHUNTER FOR EVER !!  GO HAWKS !! And by the way I will be rethinking my plan after all this discution I have to evaluate some time before mid may ,ill try ? thanx guys !!

[Bob33]

Oh yeah I forgot, it finally broke the ceilling.

Congrats washelkhunter, you screwed 92 folks   

Actually, it turns out that he did not "screw 92 folks."  Here is why, from the statistics' link above:

1888   MULTISEASON DEER   
Total Permits: 8,500   
Total Issued:  8,500   
Total Applications: 8,593   
Not selected: 93
4999   POINTS OPTION: 171

So, you see, of the 8,500 permits available, WDFW actually sold all 8,500 of them.  171 applicants lost out (RadSav included).  WashElkHunter is out the $6.60 it cost him to apply, but even though he might have been selected, because he didn't purchase by the deadline, somebody else got his tag.  The state lost nothing, all 8,500 winning applicants purchased their multi-season tag.

This is incorrect on a few points. The 171 applicants applied for points and did not "lose out"; they acquired a point, which is what they presumably wanted.  There were 93 applications (not applicants, but a close approximation) that applied for a tag, and were not drawn. Whether or not they "lost out" depends on whether they really wanted to be drawn, like Radsav, or were applying for some other reason (to prevent others from drawing, changed their mind after applying, hadn't a clue what they were applying for, etc.)

WDFW did not sell 8500 tags. They offered tags to individuals who jointly submitted 8500 applications. The number of individuals that actually purchased the tags is unknown from public data, but is certainly less than 8500.