What did you put in for?

Nothing..... I figured out several years back, after 19 years of draw hunts that most of those hunts involve a lot of luck and pressure. I know hunting involves luck and some pressure but when you throw 500 people in an area in one weekend stumping around the woods.... Be ready to make some running shots.... :D

Little to do with sign or normal deer patterns.... :) Hunt the thickets and the edges.... :)
 
I quit draw hunts 5 years ago, I have plenty of places to hunt. After about 25 yrs of draw hunts and fighting the crowds, not to mention burning an extra day just to scout the place, I'm done with them.
 
callemquacktn said:
Yep. They really messed it up when they set a limit on priority points. I was maxed out and then people that had already been drawn caught up to the limit and we're getting drawn again before me. Pisses me off. Hope this is the yr
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there is no limit on priority points
 
When I found out they were opening Hennway for the first time, I couldn't get my dealie in quick enough. That was my only choice.
 
callemquacktn said:
Yep. They really messed it up when they set a limit on priority points. I was maxed out and then people that had already been drawn caught up to the limit and we're getting drawn again before me. Pisses me off. Hope this is the yr
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I'd be very surprised to find out that is correct.

To the best of my knowledge, over the past 15 years (and since President's Island was a WMA) there have been only two "priority" systems in place for quota drawings.

In the first (earlier)system, you either had priority or you didn't. There was NO accumalation of points. That gave a person the ability to get drawn for a PI hunt every other year. If you missed drawing one year, you were on equal terms with everybody in the priority draw the next year.

There were complaints when that happened, so the agency started the current priority system where you gain a point each year you are not drawn for any WMA hunt.

Noone had ANY points accumulated when that system went into effect, so noone lost ANY points. The first year of the new system was still either priority draw or nonpriority depending on the previous year's success (or lack thereof). Everybody that didn't get drawn that year got one point instead of just going into (or back into)the priority group the next year. And, the points have been added each year of unsuccessful draws.

So, noone was "maxed out on points" or had any taken away from them.
 
This is my first year putting in since moving from MO last year. I am not quite sure how the state does it so I entered my maximum alternatives online... pretty much hit every bow/ml/gun hunt in Oak Ridge, Catoosa and Yuchi then did some Chuck Swan as a last resort.

When does the state usually update the online status for the hunts?
 

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