I've got a cow 4 years in a row in an Idaho OTC late cow hunt. The tags are capped, 1st come, 1st served. The past few years, we haven't had any problem getting them but this year is going to be different. Our hunt 2 years ago had 2500 tags and last year it was down to 700 but we still got in. It's still 700 this year but the hunt next door dropped from 2500 to 500. There's going to be an extra 2000 hunters trying for those 700.
We get them at a local hardware store. The store starts a list the day before and has all the hunter info written out in order of when you get on the list. When they go on sale, the IDFG turns on the computer and the gal at the store types furiously to get as many tags done as possible before they run out. She doesn't pause to take money. She puts them in a pile and we sort it out after the list is done.
