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I got drawn and I'll defi items buy. Why apply if you don't plan to buy the tag?I don't get the bad rep the MS tag gets. It's a great tag. Essentially you pay a little extra to get longer huntin seasons and more opportunity. I love the tag!
I drew a MS Deer. The way I see it is that I now have 3 months to take 3 kids hunting. I get to teach them how to use 3 weapons and I could do it one-on-one every weekend and never shoot. $181 to spend 3 months worth of weekends in the woods with the ones that count the most......priceless tag IMO. I didn't want the tag, I wanted the season, time is more important. I would shoot a doe with it just to give my 9 yo boy the chance to be part of it. It's all about perspective.
Disgusting revenue grab by the WDFW. Give *basically* everybody who wants to pay the premium the ability to hunt more days. There are not more total season days available, so that means they are just cramming more and more people into the same season(s) to source more money. Heck of an experience. How many guys do you think will be in the pumpkin patch in the NE corner this November over last November?*edited to add-8000 permits at 180 each is $1.44 million. They take in an extra 1.44 mill just for printing the tags.
I had it last year and now again this year but last year it was fun to go out and not have the pressure to shoot when you see a descent buck because you have all the time in the world and not tons of pressure. Now there are going to be a lot of people out their flinnging arrows that have no right to even touch a bow let alone hunt that are going to wound quiet a few animals not to mention the rifle season i feel bad for anyone that chooses to hunt rifle this year its going to be a sh*t show for sure and it really is not a good way to take kids out and show them what hunting is all about when there is orange in every direction you look. But guess we have to thank our greedy state who cant seem to figure out how to manage anything.