Wyoming will be selling raffles for the Super Tag, and Super Tag Trifecta. They go on sale Jan. 2nd and the drawing will be held the end of May. The Super Tag allows you to hunt any of the 10 big game animals you choose in any open hunt area. The Super Tag Trifecta will allow the winner to hunt 3 of the big game animals. The winners will not lose any preference points or have to wait the standard waiting period after the hunt. The Super Tag will be $10 and the Trifecta will be $30. Sounds to me like its not to bad of a gamble. What do you think? I'm up in the air for this one. It doesn't really matter to me one way or the other. Good way to make some needed money I guess.
Wyoming Raffles!!!
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Colorado Cowboy
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Are they for sale on their webpage?
Just went to the website and read the information about them. The raffle is ONLY for the right to buy a tag. You don't get one when if you win, still need to pony up the $$$ for the tag. You get to keep any points you have and can apply next year for any species with a waiting period.
Just went to the website and read the information about them. The raffle is ONLY for the right to buy a tag. You don't get one when if you win, still need to pony up the $$$ for the tag. You get to keep any points you have and can apply next year for any species with a waiting period.
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Fink
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That's an interesting way of doing things... Pretty sure I'd pay the special price, to hunt any area in the state, and not lose my points!
mntnguide
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The way i read it it doesnt necessarily sound like you get to "choose" your species if you win. It more sounds like, if you win, they will be telling you what specie you were drawn for....Might just be me, but that is what i grasp from the wording. It sounds like the Trifecta you get to choose, but the other one sounds like they will be giving out 10 licenses, one for each specie, which would mean you dont get to make your own choice. . There is definitely some wording that make it seem both could be true, but i just dont see them allowing you to choose; because how many people will be choosing Sheep if they won...anyone else know more distinct rules about it?
Topgun 30-06
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EDIT: The winner of the trifecta will get to choose three species. The other is 10 different raffles and you have to buy a ticket for a paricular raffle/animal to be in the running to draw that tag. I read it wrong yesterday when I said the people could choose any of the animals if the won and that is incorrect. I should have known that I was wrong becasue the other way would allow ten people all to choose a sheep hunt and ther aren't enough tags for that species as it is to give out another ten of them! Sorry for my mistake.
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Looking a the rules, it states that the super raffle will draw 10 winners. One for each species. Then the winners of each species will get to hunt in any area they choose. The trifecta tag will allow you to choose 3 of the 10 different animals.
If I was you guys I wouldn't even waste your money
Umpqua Hunter
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Odds will likely be staggering. I have a simple principle, if I take the price I pay at a shot and divide it by my odds and that total is more than I can buy an outfitted hunt for, I don't play.
CoHiCntry
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UH... Your posts are always interesting to me. You really have this stuff down when it comes to getting tags (or trying to). I'm not sure I understand what you mean here though? Could you give a simple example? Thanks.
I'm sure the odds will be staggering. I just hope that this will help the dept. get some more funds. It's kind of a neat idea to raise money. I am curious to know how many tickets they will sell. I would assume it would a large amount. The question is, does a person buy the cheaper ticket or will the more expensive one give him better odds? If a person wins that trifecta, that will be a lot of money to come up with to buy the tags (assuming they would buy mtn goat, moose and sheep, or bison). I would choose one of those three.
ADavid
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Fink
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The raffle ticket for a chance at a WY elk tag cost him $10. Say the odds of drawing the winning tag are 0.0001% (1 in 10,000). He could likely buy a very good guided elk hunt elsewhere, with tag included for $10,000 or less.
On the other hand, if the odds of drawing are 0.01, he's all in, as there is no where I'm aware of that will give you a good elk hunt for a hundred bucks.
HiMtnHnter
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I read the news article as its 10 tags (moose, sheep, goat, elk, deer etc) and they draw them specifically for the Reg Raffle and you don't get to choose them. Only w/ the Trifecta do you get to choose. That makes the most logical sense as if they don't do it that way then the possibility exists for Fish and Game to give out an addittional 11 sheep tags (possibily for the same area, say Area 5). That would be a real possibility if we get to choose and that would really hurt us all in the regular draw...that's my take on it.
CoHiCntry
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Ok, I see. The problem is I don't have $10,000. And if I did I wouldn't spend it on an elk hunt! I do have $10 though, Lol!
Colorado Cowboy
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What I didn't see was if I want to buy a ticket for elk and a tickets for deer, can I specify that when I purchase them? Didn't seem really clear to me.
Here's a link to better information. http://wyomingnews.com/articles/2013/12/24/news/01top_12-24-13.txt
Umpqua Hunter
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Fink nailed it!
I use "science" not luck when I'm in it to win it. One of the best courses I took in college was statistics, where you learn the math behind the odds. I do buy certain raffle tags where the cost compared to the odds makes sense.
On the other hand, as some of you mentioned, if I see it more as a "donation" where it benefits wildlife, I'll throw my name in the hat even if it doesn't make sense. One of those for me is for the Montana sheep raffle tag.