We got 'em in a few days ago. My wife has the maximum bonus points for elk, and is often lucky in drawings, which may help in drawing for the local area, even though around 10,000 people usually put in for around 100 permits.
We also have to apply for a mule deer permit to hunt locally, but everybody who applies gets one. Some years we put in and some years we head to eastern Montana, but this year the snow around here wasn't nearly as deep as in some other parts of the state. The local mule deer seem to have survived very well, and fact look pretty fat, so we're going to be hunting around home again.
