Whitetail Statewide Tag

[luvcatchingbass]

I don't think a tag for a public resource that has become so hard to draw for the average resident of this state should be given to any non-profit organization. They can auction a million other things to raise money. Just my opinion....

YEAH. Like a crappy gun or a bunch of crappy guns that anyone can buy off the shelf or nobody wants.
Our SCI Chapter is trying an online only Auction of various trips and it has been running for 3 weeks nation wide and I can tell you right now unless people get to bidding in the next 2 days we aren't making very much after we pay the auction company and pay the outfitters because guess what NOT EVERYTHING is 100% donations. SCI is not able to get the ND tags because we are 501 c (4), basically meaning SCI does political advocacy and lobbying. That sure would suck if an organization in the state of ND got a donation from the state to raise money then turn around and use that money to try to advocate for what the people that utilize the states resources for hunting and fishing.

https://www.onlinehuntingauctions.com/SCI-Red-River-Valley-Chapter-2026-Online-Auction_as117150

I got probably 40hrs or more of my spare time putting this together this 1 auction of 25 (this spring I had 2 days of banquet auctions and about 45 items each night) then not sure how many hours contacting winners and outfitters to make sure everyone is on the same page and getting outfitters paid.
Like @Petras said there is a lot of work that goes into these things and some places don't have the man power, I will not vote for our chapter to run a raffle because I know that it CANNOT be ran correctly and I don not have the time to devote on top of what I already do. I wish I had competent help on our SCI Banquet Auction but every time I give someone a task they let me down and I do it myself. TRUST me there are lots of things I would rather do than volunteer all the time I do to our SCI Chapter but I truly believe that IF we can grow we stand to make some meaningful impacts in conservation areas in the future, currently we have been focusing on youth, disabled and veteran hunting education and opportunities with some general humanitarian involved

 

[wslayer]

Why the need to run around and sell tickets ? When you look online to see if you were successful or unsuccessful, have a spot in the same place whether you would like to purchase " Statewide raffle" ticket. I would bet they would get more than the Auction brings.
Anyone ever play the Lottery, not much different . . .

 

[Obi-Wan]

Raffles are an ass ache to run. Its no different than here people bitching about the bighorn raffle but with out it there would be no big horn sheep to even have a chance at.

Are you talking ND or SD ? I don't recall ND ever having a raffle for a Big Horn Sheep tag but I do know they auction one off to the guy with the deepest pockets each year .

The purpose of these special allotments isn't to even the playing field for everyone.... It's to generate as much revenue as possible for the NP organization... As much as it sucks for those who can't afford to try to buy one of these tags (this includes me), the true intent and purpose of the tag is being fulfilled...

You mention running a raffle again... I'll say it again, it takes a lot of people to run a good successful raffle... 2500 tickets is 250 books of 10 tickets... figure an average volunteer MIGHT be able to sell 2-3 books of tickets each... you are looking at 80 volunteers just to sell tickets.... yes I know that there are some people who are more active and better at peddling tickets but interacting with people and trying to get them to buy something isn't something that many people like to do....

I have personally looked into running a gun/item raffle to help out a NP group that I volunteer with. It's kind of a daunting task just to get it set up... then you have to track every single thing about the whole process. It's not an easy chore and requires a lot of people...

Lets look at this from another angle... Asking a NP group to do things the same way as the game and fish isn't really fair... The resources available to the 2 groups are VASTLY different...

There are multiple online sites that run raffles for free. Post the raffle for guns or big game on multiple hunting/fishing sites and the tickets will sell themselves.

 

[Kurtr]

Are you talking ND or SD ? I don't recall ND ever having a raffle for a Big Horn Sheep tag but I do know they auction one off to the guy with the deepest pockets each year .

There are multiple online sites that run raffles for free. Post the raffle for guns or big game on multiple hunting/fishing sites and the tickets will sell themselves.

Sd they have both the auction raises way more money and with out it there would be no big horns

 

[Icepirate]

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there some sort of restrictions for online raffles in ND? At least as far as payment method? I bought an elk raffle ticket from pheasants forever this year and cash or check was the only acceptable payment method due to some ND law.....

 

[Petras]

Better make damned sure you are on the up and up with those online Raffle sites if you want to maintain you NP status...

Doesn't seem to be so cut and dry easy to do it online.... lots of stuff to consider.... probably enough to warrant needing to get legal advice on... which costs money..