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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on January 21, 2013, 03:45:31 PM

Title: partner permits question
Post by: HoofsandWings on January 21, 2013, 03:45:31 PM: How do the partner permits work out? By that I mean: Do you hunt together? Are your schedules the same?
Any bitterness when one has lots of points and the other has no points and you do not get drawn.
By the way, I am not talking about father-son applications.
Of course, the area we are planning to go partners on is about as possible to draw as being struck by lightning.
Title: Re: partner permits question
Post by: billythekidrock on January 21, 2013, 03:54:13 PM: Your best odds are for everyone involved to apply as individuals.
Title: Re: partner permits question
Post by: Bob33 on January 21, 2013, 04:07:27 PM: With a party application everyone in the party gets a permit if the application is drawn, or none of them do. If drawn, everyone in the party has the same permit and can hunt individually or with others that have the same permit.

A party application has the average number of points of all applicants in that party. If one applicant has one point, and the second partner has seven points, that party application has four points.
Title: Re: partner permits question
Post by: Rainier10 on January 21, 2013, 04:26:37 PM: Since this is under elk hunting I will answer as an elk hunter, I might answer differently under deer.

Elk hunting is tough and I do hunt with a partner during the general archery season. For the drawings we put in as individuals and if one is drawn the other would still go on the hunt and be the caller, help packing or just be a cheerleader when the hunting is slow. Drawing a tag is still no guarantee of getting an elk. I think the odds of two people working together for one person to connect on a trophy is better.