Stray Dog, yes. You are right.
It was crowded and over hunted.The draw has helped Colorado...I stopped going there (after killing a 200+ mule deer), for the reasons you stated.Guess I hit it right or something in those years....Today it's a better place to draw a tag for sure. The quality bucks are there.
What I did was shift locations to other states and provinces. In the helter skelter of scheduling hunts I had to leave some tags on the table in the process, but I would hate to have to duplicate it all today.....I still have no patience for draws,and doubt I could afford to do it all again.