Fewest points to draw a sheep or goat tag?

[Jharstad7182]

A buddie of mine drew huckleberry any moose with 4 points 2 years ago shot a nice bull opening morning

[Jharstad7182]

By what the harvest reports say one gay got any ram with 4 points and one guy got goat with 6 that was last year. I should be able to pull a tag with 9

[ramslam]

I quickly pulled this from the bighorn draw stats from 2016:

3 with 21
2 with 20
2 with 19
4 with 18
1 with 17
1 with 15
2 with 14
2 with 13
1 with 11
2 with 10
1 with 9
1 with 4

[MadMooner]

Nice!

I feel for the fellas with tons of points that don't get drawn year after year, but it's pretty damn cool to have a shot just starting to get in. I'd not put in if there wasn't any chance at all for 15+ years. 

[Gringo31]

Depends on what you call a chance....


SHEEP ANY RAM
Points   Applications   Winning
Applications   Applicants   Winning
Applicants
23   5   0   5   0
22   6   0   6   0
21   392   3   394   3
20   212   2   212   2
19   228   2   236   2
18   412   4   422   4
17   398   1   405   1
16   444   0   454   0
15   520   1   536   1
14   593   2   609   2
13   575   2   594   2
12   657   0   673   0
11   702   1   721   1
10   789   2   805   2
9   816   1   845   1
8   838   0   856   0
7   929   0   957   0
6   988   0   1,006   0
5   967   0   988   0
4   1,169   1   1,187   1
3   1,285   0   1,315   0
2   1,771   0   1,796   0
1   2,178   0   2,201   0
SHEEP ANY RAM TOTAL   16,874   22   17,223   22
See Sheep Any Ram drawing results by hunt number [PDF]


The bottom 10,000+ people got one tag.

[X-Force]

Looking at that list makes me love Idaho's system that much more!

That being said my dad was fortunant last year to draw goat with far less than max points.

[andrew_in_idaho]

Seems like not too long ago somebody drew lincoln cliffs with 1 point. Like 4-5 yrs back


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[Stein]

Yeah, but if you have 20+ points you almost have a 1% chance of drawing.  Start putting in at age 15 you will have 20 points by age 35.  If you haven't drawn by then, by the time you are 85 you would have had a 50% chance of drawing a tag - of course assuming no point creep.  Add in point creep and you are probably at 15%.

They should just run a traditional lottery for OIL tags.

[Jpmiller]

My son drew Mt goat with 3 points a few years ago....... and then got his points restored due to a wdfw ruling.

What is the story on this dan-o

[crabcreekhunter]

I think if they kept the app fee the same but had to front the 300+ dollars or so for the tag if drawn and get a refund it would drop applicants but wdfw would lose a bunch of money so wont ever happen... I have 20 points at age 29 and most likely will never draw any oil permit before my hunting career is over, but i do like the fact everyone has a chance.

[Falcon]

I think if they kept the app fee the same but had to front the 300+ dollars or so for the tag if drawn and get a refund it would drop applicants but wdfw would lose a bunch of money so wont ever happen... I have 20 points at age 29 and most likely will never draw any oil permit before my hunting career is over, but i do like the fact everyone has a chance.

CCH

At your age and your points, I am pretty confident you will at least draw 1 OIL tag before you're too old to hunt, whatever age that is😆

[crabcreekhunter]

I think if they kept the app fee the same but had to front the 300+ dollars or so for the tag if drawn and get a refund it would drop applicants but wdfw would lose a bunch of money so wont ever happen... I have 20 points at age 29 and most likely will never draw any oil permit before my hunting career is over, but i do like the fact everyone has a chance.

CCH

At your age and your points, I am pretty confident you will at least draw 1 OIL tag before you're too old to hunt, whatever age that is😆

I hope your right, have one less for goat and under ten for moose which i have less desire to hunt.  All ya can do is play the game!

[Oh Mah]

At great risk of being called out by members that have been on this forum since the beginning i will say 1 thing that gets left out of these questions all the time,almost every post.


MORE INFO IS NEEDED FOR EVERYONE OF THESE THREADS ASKING ABOUT THESE ODDS.
WHATS THE LOWEST POINTS YOU HAVE DRAWN FOR WHAT CATEGORY IS FIRST. IS IT YOUTH,DISABLED,OVER 65,MASTER HUNTER WHAT?

[GurrCentral]

@GurrCentral, any comments   

Once upon a time a 17yr old young man drew a coveted WA sheep tag with 3 points.....he is still grateful for all of the knowledge and help he acquired from a few guys crazy about bighorns! At the top of that list is some yahoo who goes by the name of DOUBLELUNG!! HAHA

This was not a youth tag.

[Biggerhammer]

Aaron drew with 6 points and scored on the current World Record Cali.

And the perfect storm! That record will stand for a loooooooong time!