No one in my family has fewer than 6 points for Elk, thought we had a fair chance at a tag or two but with 18K more applicants......
I have 19 points for Antelope, probably need 23 for a 6% chance to get a tag.
Decided not to apply for NM, very poor deer numbers and a increase in tag allotment in the units i like to hunt. Also seeing lots of 40 acre idiots move out into what used to be good hunting areas. It is not the folks really but the dogs they let run wild, the dogs will run every game animal out of the country. When the deer and elk are gone the next thing they do is chew ears and tails off of calfs. Between the price hikes for applications/tags and the loss of hunting areas frustration starts to kick in.
The old time ranchers would disown family if they saw what was happening to what they worked so hard to build.
