Big game raffles?

[2LEYS]

Does anyone know how many tickets a year are sold each year for some of the big game raffles?

There don't limit the number of tickets someone can buy, so it seems liek some rich guy could buy a few thousand of them and get it every year.

Anyway I am thinking of buying some this year.

[nwsteelheader]

Interesting that you should ask.

Percentage Tags/2004 Oregon Tag Guide put out by Charlie Middleton and Pat Moran each year lists the number of raffle tickets purchased. They break it down by each different raffle.

It is really strange but in 2003 there were only about 60% of the normal tag sales. For example:

bighorn sheep 2002 = 9,913, 2003 = 5,795
Deer 2002 = 10,033, 2003 = 5,876

Depending on which one you are interested in, it ranges between 3,000 -7,000 tickets sold per hunt. Not great odds and kinda spendy. if you wanted to buy 4,000 tickets, it would cost you $10 g's and that wouldn't even guarantee you'd be picked..

That Said, I do think that there are people out there who have dropped a few thousand dollars on tickets and been drawn. I recall one guy 2 years ago who was chosen as the winner on one drawing and the runner up on another. I'm just guessing but I gotta imagine he didn't get lucky with a couple of crisp $20 bills

Good Luck!
let me know if there is a particular hunt you want to know the number of tickets on.


shawn

[2LEYS]

I was mostly interested in the Sheep, Goat and Pronghorn raffles.

Might buy a $100 worth of tickets a year from now on.

[nwsteelheader]

The Goat and antelope raffles are brand new this year, so there are no numbers on those.

Bighorn Sheep
1998 2049
1999 5105
2000 6184
2001 5190
2002 9913
2003 5795

Interesting trend here. You would have been wise to spend a bunch of money in 98 when the program was just getting going. It looks like some big spender bought some serious tickets in 02 trying to win.

shawn

[Rauly]

Don't bother 2LEYS. I already bought the winning tickets. I have also won the lottery the last weeks running. Please wake me up now.

Rauly

[horseskull]

A guy from McMinnville has won a deer hunt the last three years at least. He has to be buying several $$$ worth each year. I sometimes buy twenty dollars worth. I talked to a guy that bought only 2 tickets and won the sheep raffle.

[Luckybill]

Having one a raffle in the past I can say the one thing I did that might have helped, was attach labels instead of completing them by hand. I noticed it made my raffle ticket much stiffer. In addition it made it really quick and easy to complete each one, I bought thirty tickets and I put in for the draw that had the lowest amount of tickets sold, something like 1000 so I guess i had a 3% percent chance. :shocked: It was a blessing and curse and I haven't tried again!! [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

[Luckybill]

I guess my post SHOULD have said, Having WON a raffle in the past!! [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img] By the way that raffle choice has been changed, it used to be central Ore Elk, and Now they have combined the high desert and central. The Central was a tough hunt for me, the area I was familiar with, were Imnaha and East Northside. It would have been nice to have been a member of this great site when I had that tag. It all worked out nicely - but that is another story.

[ 02-11-2004, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Luckybill ]