First Drawing results

When will they do the first drawing?

Hopefully today around 1 or 2.

I am not sure with the new system. But last year it was the day after the deadline. I would assume it’s going to be today.

Well, not sure how to read into this. I gained a preference point in private land pronghorn, but it still says application received.

Good luck to all! Fingers crossed on any pronghorn draw for me

Good luck to everyone too. Someone please post when they start the drawing!!!

Oh heck yeah, I forgot! Something to get my hopes up about........and then be disappointed again. But hey, that's the game!

Uh oh, just went to check, TPWD website server down for "maintenance". Hope they didn't crash themselves with their new cubing method.

Good luck to everyone. This year I put in far fewer that previous years. I hardly hit in previous years so I expect pretty much nothing again but never know, just might be my lucky year!

Alligator in now

Good luck again and let the disappointment begin!!

What's taking so long???

This will fill my void until the Cowboys play again! lol

The pos system is struggling to get all 150,000,000 applications processed for pronghorn after they cubed everything.

Right?

I still have application received on pronghorn

Me too, I've checked only about a hundred times!

Private Lands Pronghorn just came in. No whammy.

My brother and I drew Private Lands Dove - South Texas / Texas Wild. Pretty excited.

No dice for me on pronghorn...long shot anyways

Well that theory of the many years of having points with the new system increasing the odds is bogus.. I have 16 years in the pronghorn Rita Blanca and i drew zip, nada.

Same here.
24 individuals loyalty points , and pending second draw this year.

well I wont complain then.. 24 is more than my 16... The "loyalty" part blows my mind.. and Ill see on here someone post " I got drawn for Whitetail deer either sex at Chaparral with 6 points!".... I have like 18 or more and yet to be picked.... frustrating.

Congrats. Mind if I ask how many points you had?

Congrats.

I dont recall and the system only shows "N/A" in our points category now.

Now 24 points in pronghorn and 13 in private lands pronghorn. Both pending 2nd draw. Maybe next year.....

Someone I know got drawn for Riata Pronghorn with less than 7 points - him and a friend.......... that is some good luck

Good for them! But I kind of hate them. No not really, just jealous! They are going to have a great hunt I bet.

I bet that will not sit right with the 20+ point guys. Good luck to your friends. I hope they make it worth the effort.

Ouch, I know the hunter ed instructor guy that calls into Brian Hughes fishing/outdoors radio show called in to gloat he drew Pronghorn after many years of applying, Brian didn't seem to enthused about it...

Just shows you that cubing and squaring bonus points really doesn't do anything for your draw odds, even at higher point totals.

People act like it will only increase their points and no one else's.

For example, Nevada is the same way (squared bonus points). Even if you have max points (27) for a species. Say you want to hunt a high demand unit, like #222 for elk, your draw odds for the archery tag are less than 1%, with the highest odds being 4% for the muzzleloader hunt. If you are just unlucky and you only stick to those high demand units, there is the possibility that you never draw a tag. Not one max point holder has drawn a tag in that unit in the last 5 years, no one with more than 20 points has even drawn. Its usually to someone in the 13-18 point range.

It's a lottery people... no amount of points will guarantee you a draw. Increase your odds, yes...but that's it. I'm sure there will be plenty of people winning spots that have 0 points in a draw category. Buy your ticket and hope for the best. If you don't get drawn, no biggie, your money went for a good cause that all of us support Everyone who buys a ticket equally deserves their win if they do win - regardless of how many points they have.... it's a lottery.

The fact that they even give points to the losers of the lottery (that can be used to increase their odds in a future lottery)...it's basically giving everyone a participation trophy LOL

Pretty much.

Exactly.

Squaring points maybe but cubing points the odds will be astronomical a first year applicant will draw any hunt in the system this year for the adult hunts, the youth hunts it may still happen as kids age out and max points aren't as high