Some good information on some new category's. And some stats on hunt apps






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If it is about money, they are sure missing out on some that would be easy.

Why not a preference point only code? One reply was that it was not important because it is not a weighted point. Well Pennsylvania would dispute that. Take 2012 1 in every 26 applicants for the public elk hunt was for a PP only. 707 x $10 free money for nothing. Most drawn had over 10 points. The points can matter even if just extra drops in the hat.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...-169809056.html
Texas instead has many applicants in years that applicant does not wish to draw put in for a hard to draw hunts or by adding non hunters on their app with zero PPs to average down with the intent not to draw and gain the point. Talking to hunters at the orientations it goes on more than tpwd knows. And they wonder why people don't show. Manipulating the draw with friends and family members got so bad in Arkansas they did away with their entire point system. It too could have been fixed.

Then there is non residents that pay the same entry and hunt fee as Texans. Missed money and more lost opportunity to residents. Oklahoma is a non weighted PP draw like Texas. They require non residents any current hunting license to apply. No telling how much revenue that state takes in just by nonresidents entering that state's public Elk hunt alone. There are over 30,000 applicants for OKs Wichita Mnt hunt. Many if not most of those non residents.

Keep yammering at them and someday somebody might listen...We all know TPW gets the short end of the MONEY Stick...lets let the out of stater's pay a premium like Texans do everywhere else.

And Yes I am guilty as charged with the way I've put in for hard to get hunts to build what's now the most insulting thing I ever heard...Loyalty Points. What a joke for a name.

Texas could have done a true Prefernce Point system just like every Rocky Mountain State back when Hector was a pup kinda years ago...but Nooo we got to be different and not capture the best use of the resource....'cause we got Awl Money to burn.

Ranting about it has been a waste of breath and interest, so I'll spend a couple bux at most... Big Woo, I spent $12 bux this year on App Fee's and preserved my 15 now going on 16 EXO points ...and forget about really trying to go somewhere to hunt in a Texas State property....and buy Lotto tickets instead in hopes of winning enough money to BUY my Own place to hunt.
Ron