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It's actually somewhat useful information and certainly it shouldn't be "deceiving." It could only be deceiving if you don't understand how the draw works in this state. Look at the number of applicants for that hunt. If there are 4,000 applicants and 25 permits, that's odds of 1 in 160. Or another way of looking at it- on average you can expect to draw that hunt once every 160 years. It makes no difference if the average points are 11 and you have 11 points. Your odds are still terrible!
but those 4000 applicants have multiple numbers in the bucket making the odds way worse.
Quote from: bobcat on April 28, 2015, 05:03:46 PMIt's actually somewhat useful information and certainly it shouldn't be "deceiving." It could only be deceiving if you don't understand how the draw works in this state. Look at the number of applicants for that hunt. If there are 4,000 applicants and 25 permits, that's odds of 1 in 160. Or another way of looking at it- on average you can expect to draw that hunt once every 160 years. It makes no difference if the average points are 11 and you have 11 points. Your odds are still terrible!Except when you draw a sheep permit
The next best thing to drawing a tag is going along with a friend who has the golden key. I know from having gone on a couple sheep hunts how rewarding that can be. At the end of day I am happy to just be in the mtns in the state I love. Best of luck to all this year in the almighty OIL draws👍
If you want a real downer look at each tag and see how many points it was drawn with. Its on the WDFW website. I cry when I see a few guys with 7 and 8 points draw sheep and goat.... What's interesting is that very rarely do max points guys draw. Seems the happy place is 15-18 points..