Idaho OIL Tags

[Arteman]

Got an old Idaho regs book at home, but I'm at work and thought id just ask here.  Is it to late to put in for the Idaho sheep permit drawing for 2012 already, or is there still time?

[75johndeere]

april 30th i think

[Arteman]

Thanks, is it a state you pay the full price and get refunded if you don't draw, or just buy a license and the app like Washington and Oregon?

[Machias]

Thanks, is it a state you pay the full price and get refunded if you don't draw, or just buy a license and the app like Washington and Oregon?

If it's like their moose tag you have to pay full price, then if you don't get drawn you get all but a small portion back.

[B.G.hunter]

Thanks, is it a state you pay the full price and get refunded if you don't draw, or just buy a license and the app like Washington and Oregon?

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Yes you have to buy the license($154.75), tag(2101.75) and application fee($14.75).  If you do not get drawn then you get a refund for the tag price ($2101.75).

[bobcat]

Thanks, is it a state you pay the full price and get refunded if you don't draw, or just buy a license and the app like Washington and Oregon?

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Yes you have to buy the license($154.75), tag(2101.75) and application fee($14.75).  If you do not get drawn then you get a refund for the tag price ($2101.75).

        Hopefully they let you put that on a credit card!

[boneaddict]

You don't get quite that much back as you have to pay a convienence fee for doing it (if you do it online)  Its a percentage of the total price.

[boneaddict]

THe GOOD thing is that you can only pick ONE OIL and if you choose OIL you CANNOT apply for special deer or elk.   That makes OIL odds fairly decent.

[Arteman]

Thanks guys for the info, I had no idea you had to front the money in Idaho.  I'm a little unprepared to pay that price, and dont really want to get a credit card.  Ill have to scratch that idea tell next year.  I heard somewhere Idaho had the best odds for drawing sheep tags than other states so thought I'd start trying.

[shanevg]

Part of the reason for such good odds is that you have to front the money and you don't build points. It keeps a lot of people applying as they dont see any long term advantage like there is in other states.

[boneaddict]

They've been really pushing the points option, but so far sportsman have stopped the effort.

[buckhorn2]

It;s a fair draw for everyone with no preference points but still the non-resident hunters only get a small per-centage of the tags. Expensive but still a lot less than canada or alaska. When I hunted Kotzebue there were pallets and Pallets on the airport stacked with moose meat that people did;nt ship home because of the price to ship but the meat was donated to native people and some was flown as far as fairbanks.One had only backstraps on it and it was stacked about 5 feet tall would have liked to figured how to get that home.

[shanevg]

They've been really pushing the points option, but so far sportsman have stopped the effort.

Man if they implemented points in Idaho my out of state application budget would sure go up. (Assuming of course they at least let everyone apply points only for every species.)

I didn't apply this year because of all the car issues I've been having. Idaho is the first to get cut out just because there is no hit on your future draw odds if you miss a year. Another positive side of having no points.

[bearpaw]

I am a definite fan of no points in Idaho. If they ever go to a point system I hope it is like Utah, where half the tags are random draw and half the tags go to the applicants with the most points. That seems like the fairest system to me.

[Austrian Hunter]

I am a definite fan of no points in Idaho. If they ever go to a point system I hope it is like Utah, where half the tags are random draw and half the tags go to the applicants with the most points. That seems like the fairest system to me.