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Title: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: dreamingbig on May 20, 2025, 01:07:23 PM: Can we sue them? Class action? (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250520/8c3ddd111eb14154bafcdebc3da15c74.jpg)

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Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: pickardjw on May 20, 2025, 01:22:11 PM: Technically not wrong. My odds of drawing Colockum quality bull goes up from 0.01% chance to 0.02% chance at 6 points!
Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: CarbonHunter on May 20, 2025, 03:22:37 PM: You probably could but then they would have to increase the cost of our license and tags to fight the lawsuit. Seems to be lose- lose no matter what the outcome.
Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: link on May 20, 2025, 07:21:58 PM: I guess its going to depend on the WDFW's definition of "preference". My idea of a preference point system is that all or some of the permits go to those with the highest points. Bonus point systems are just a glorified random *censored* show.
Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: dreamingbig on May 21, 2025, 03:44:45 AM: The BONUS point gives you extra tickets in the hat but certainly not any PREFERENCE.

It is a flat out lie. We are a bonus point state.

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Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: dreamingbig on May 21, 2025, 03:45:51 AM: Quote from: CarbonHunter on May 20, 2025, 03:22:37 PM
You probably could but then they would have to increase the cost of our license and tags to fight the lawsuit. Seems to be lose- lose no matter what the outcome.
I was kidding about the lawsuit.

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Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: Angry Perch on May 21, 2025, 03:48:56 PM: If you get 5 names in the hat and I get 10, aren't I getting a preference?
Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: ShedHead20 on May 21, 2025, 09:04:00 PM: This why the state needs to dump the point game. I have points all in the high teens in multiple different categories and I would be 100% willing to drop them all to zero tomorrow for a “true” lottery system. One application = one name in the hat. Too many guys with a lot of points would cry way to hard of that happened and that’s why we’re stuck.
Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: Threewolves on May 22, 2025, 05:38:11 AM: Quote from: Angry Perch on Yesterday at 03:48:56 PM
If you get 5 names in the hat and I get 10, aren't I getting a preference?
One would think you were getting a preference, but when you are sitting on max points for big horn and upper 20's for moose and goat AND someone with 14 or 16 points draws a tag, it sure doesn't seem like any kind preference.

Someone on HW once said at best the system is a ponzy scheme.

But what keeps me going is that someone else figured the chance of drawing one of the hunts was .03%. And someone else, my HERO, chimed in with:

"SO YOU ARE SAYING THERE'S A CHANCE!"

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Title: Re: WDFW falsely advertising preference points
Post by: dreamingbig on May 22, 2025, 01:36:50 PM: Quote from: Angry Perch on Yesterday at 03:48:56 PM
If you get 5 names in the hat and I get 10, aren't I getting a preference?
No. Preference means you would draw a tag based on point total.

We are a random bonus point state. Some are hybrid (pref/bonus) and some have nothing (Idaho).

Anyone can draw in our state. If we were preference then the folks with the most points would be drawing.

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