A solid proposal would be for sheep/mountain goat to be done sooner. Very few tags, No points, no LOP. June 6th would be 2 weeks sooner and guarantee a couple work days to make sure it's right.
Necessary? No. But ODFW manages game, they dont own them. They do owe us their best.
I think it’s safe to say the ODFW employee who pushes the button to load the results is the most powerful man (or woman) in the world. Nobody should have that kind of power!!!
So we could split hairs. Their website says by June 20th. It doesn't say close of business on June 20th. Technically by June 20th would mean that the results would be available no later than 11:59.59 pm on June 19, 2019; allowing for results to be seen by June 20th which is 12:00 am on June 20th.
If I were still living in Oregon, I'd actually want the process to take place later in the year, preferably to where you could change your app up until July 20. This way one would be able to receive all controlled hunt app results from other states in time to switch Oregon apps to point savers if need be.
Sheep and goat should be a separate drawing in February or March with up front tag payment (reimburse unsuccessful applicants). Hunters who choose to apply for sheep or goat should not be allowed to apply for 100, 200, and 400 series controlled hunts, and each hunter participating in the sheep and goat drawing should only be allowed one app and have to choose either a sheep or a goat hunt to apply for.
I think the real question regarding ODFW's obligations is how they are getting away with saying that the 2018 hunt statistics will be available "after April 15" and yet they still haven't been published. We get fined $25 per tag if we don't report on time but they simply get to remove their deadline. Apparently honoring your commitments is too hard but they should at least communicate with us, the customer, and give us a new, reasonable expectation.
I'm fully prepared to not see tag draw results; until after 6/20. And no explanation until sometime after the deadline. And then only on Facebook.
Did pull a 2nd choice elk tag so at least I can camp in the wall tent this fall.
Oldest son and I went in as a party he will go too so it will be fun.
Seed numbers played out just as I assumed that they would...
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something must be going on. I tried to log in twice, session just timed out. That hasn't happened before.
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