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Was he hunting your country?

It does suck but I think our G&F builds no shows into the tag numbers! Well, this many guys aren’t gonna show up so we can add a few tags to the hunt code, make a few more bucks! 😂

I don’t think so. GT killed the Gov. tag out of there last year.

That was crazy, the dad had the auction tag and the son had the raffle.

Trying to verify this years, now it’s got wanting to know for sure. I may switch it up a little this year.

This thread got me thinking.

Donald Trump is paying all expenses for you. Money and time is not an issue, what tag would you get?

Pretty sure it would be a desert tag for me.

It does piss a guy off. I know of 2 16D first rifle tags that didn’t get hunted last year due to a softball tournament.

Governor’s Mule deer tag.

😁

Desert Bighorn for me. My dream hunt.

Ugh. NM only that’s tough, deer or desert. Throw AZ in the mix and then it’s a little easier to say Deer.
Everyone plays that game. If you win the raffle, would you hunt or sell??? I think if I won I would sell it because I know how bad the deer herd is doing and my expectations are so unrealistic I’d never find the deer I wanted and the pressure to produce would make me miserable. So I’d sell it and buy a management deer/coues hunt in Sonora!

Never gonna draw a sheep tag. Leave it up to you scrappers. Good luck.

WTF! Only way I couldn't hunt is due to illness or something dire in the family. But a softball tournament, geez.

I also wonder how many animal rights activists put in for these tags hoping to take away a tag from a hunter?

Desert bighorn for me also. Would you go Hatchets or Peloncillos?

Knew a guy who drew a Hatchet DBH tag a few years ago. He decided to do it himself. Made a half-dozen scouting trips (an 8 or 9 hour drive, one-way). Managed to locate a ram or two. Then came the hunt. No sheep to be found. They'd moved off to who knows where. Spent 10 days floundering around the range in futility. Finally, on the afternoon of the last day, he attempted a very long shot on a ram he'd spotted - and missed. The kicker here is that he was the only unguided tag holder (out of 7, I believe) and was the only one who didn't get a ram.

Would be a hard choice. Not a good answer, but would depend on the year which area I’d chose.

They do move around a bunch.

I want to hunt them real bad, but would hope to have the right people around, cause the pressure could take all the fun out of it.

The Gov. desert ram was killed.

Interesting thread. In SD we only have 3 or 4 draw sheep tags. 6-7 years back the wild sheep people lobbied hard for an auction tag to raise funds for sheep restoration projects and it passed. Worked good for a couple of years then Noem got in, croaks big out of one side of her mouth advocating for corn alcohol production and out of the other side of her mouth for pheasant habitat restoration two opposite posed land issues. She ordered the gfp commission to purloin the auction tag proceeds for habitat restoration on private land. Then stuck all of us with a habitat stamp fee to raise money for her idea of pheasant restoration on private land which is all leased to pheasant outfitters. See not only does the government hose citizens but likes to bug fug sheep too. Now you know the rest of the story.
PS NONE OF THE other various wildlife organizations in the state ask for auction tags any more to raise funds gee wonder why.

Just to be fair, I just put in the lucky app for one of the 24 desert sheep tags, so you all can fight over the remaining 23.

I’d reluctantly take a rocky.

The problem is that the states game commisioners are crooked as Hillary Clinton. There is one section in the dry Cimarron area that one of the commisioners borders, so they passed a no hunting ban on the State land adjacent to his so that noone can hunt any game species on the State land. Granted these are small sections, but the land is very landlocked and checkerboarded...they posted it as a "bighorn study area".

Ya, that whole Dry Cimmaron release and closure was sketchy as hell.

Sims thought he would end up with LO authorizations out of that deal. (Almost did)

Eta; the more I think about it, he might have got it?

Gonzaga, that’s your country. Did he get authorizations, or does he just pretty much control the hunts?