Multi Season Statistics

[gee_unit360]

Does anyone know when the multi season stats will come out? Like how many applied and and how many permits there were?

[bobcat]

If it's anything like last year, it'll be several months.

[Brushbuster]

Here is the response I got today to an email I sent yesterday. Per the response the number of permits were the same. There was no mention of the number of applicants. The 50% draw rate I came up with was from the polls & comments on HW:
 
RE: Multi Season Deer
 Sent By:
 Sent By Wildthing (DFW)   On:Apr 04/10/15 2:44 PM
To: To Michael
  "Wildthing (DFW)"

Dear Mr. Voigt,

Thank you for contacting the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

We are not sure where you got that 50% amount. For the multi-season deer, there are 8500 permits. In both 2014 and 2015, there were more people that put in for the permit than we had permits available. Due to this, not everyone who put in was selected. In 2013, we had less than the 8500 people put in for the multi-season permit and thus, everyone who put in was drawn.

The number of tags has not changed.

If you have more questions, please don't hesitate to contact us again.

Sincerely,

Wildlife Program Customer Service
(360) 902-2515

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 3:34 PM
To: Web Master (DFW)
Subject: Multi Season Deer

The following question/comment was submitted from your knowledgebase
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From: Mike: On a website site I visit I noticed the number of hunters selected in the drawing was running less than 50%. Did something change this year? Were there less tags or more applicants?

Thank You

[gee_unit360]

Thanks Brushbuster. I'll be interested to see the numbers when they come out. It still seems fishy that poll is running close to 50% success rate on this site after such high success rates in previous years.

[bowhunterty]

Last year 8763 people put in for the 8500  multiseason deer permits. 2 out of 5 of us drew. And I was not one off them. With that being said, suspect more people applied this year.

[bugs n bones]

There were 15000 deer applicants this year

[Muleyslyr]

There were 15000 deer applicants this year

Well if that's true, we can all expect the price to jack back up next year.

[bugs n bones]

I called and that what the lady told me

[grundy53]

There were 15000 deer applicants this year

Well if that's true, we can all expect the price to jack back up next year.

If that were true the elk multi season permit would be $400.

[bugs n bones]

There were 15000 deer applicants this year

Well if that's true, we can all expect the price to jack back up next year.

If that were true the elk multi season permit would be $400.

if what was true?

[grundy53]

There were 15000 deer applicants this year

Well if that's true, we can all expect the price to jack back up next year.

If that were true the elk multi season permit would be $400.

if what was true?

Muleyslyr thinks they will raise the price of the multi season deer tag back up because of all the applicants.

[grundy53]

Personally, I think they are more likely to raise the amount of permits.

[bobcat]

They will be selling a lot more multi season deer tags now so I don't see them increasing the number, or the price. With the unsold tags now going back up for sale August 1st, it's likely all 8,500 will be sold. In the past the WDFW said they really didn't want to issue that many tags, but drew 8,500 people, knowing that a high percentage of those drawn would not purchase the tag.

[longwalker]

I can't believ you guys actually had to call/email fish and game to figure out why you didn't draw a tag. Is it really that hard to comprehend? Talk about something continually on the internet about being a sure and wonderful thing and you can garantee at some point it will no longer be that way. The high hunt is a great example. good work once again internet

[headshot5]

I can't believ you guys had to actually had to call/email fish and game to figure out why you didn't draw a tag. Is it really that hard to comprehend? Talk about something continually on the internet about being a sure and wonderful thing and you can garantee at some point it will no longer be that way. The high hunt is a great example. God work once again internet

Haha!  So very true.   

[grundy53]

They will be selling a lot more multi season deer tags now so I don't see them increasing the number, or the price. With the unsold tags now going back up for sale August 1st, it's likely all 8,500 will be sold. In the past the WDFW said they really didn't want to issue that many tags, but drew 8,500 people, knowing that a high percentage of those drawn would not purchase the tag.

I agree. I was just stating IF they did anything it would be raise the amount of tags. I think that would make them more money than raising the price.

[UBA]

Is it a for sure thing that on August 1 the left overs go on sell?

[bugs n bones]

I was told they were not going back up for grabs by wdfw

[UBA]

Well that sucks.

[bobcat]

This is the language that was approved by the Fish & Wildlife Commission last week:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/2015/04/apr09_2015_18_summary.pdf

[UBA]

Awesome. That gives me some hope.

[Chesapeake]

It says in the regs online that the leftovers go on sale.

[huntnphool]

 I would like to see harvest statistics of multi season applicants, how many days they hunted, which season they were successful in and whether they hunted more than one weapon season to get their animal.

[Bob33]

I would like to see harvest statistics of multi season applicants, how many days they hunted, which season they were successful in and whether they hunted more than one weapon season to get their animal.

Find some of that here: http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/2014/deer_general.html

[lamrith]

It says in the regs online that the leftovers go on sale.

"at the discretion of the department".  Does not mean they HAVE to sell them, just that they can..

Really hoping they do!

[Chesapeake]

It says in the regs online that the leftovers go on sale.

"at the discretion of the department".  Does not mean they HAVE to sell them, just that they can..

Really hoping they do!

My copy of the regs don't say that. It says " ...they may be sold to non-selected applicants....."
That says to me you must have applied to be qualified to purchase leftovers.
But yeah, it doesn't say "they HAVE to sell them".

[bobcat]

Here is the WAC as shown in the proposals: