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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dust in the wind" data-source="post: 227481" data-attributes="member: 215">As I said in the 2 lines below your response, if they choose the gratis tag - that takes a tag away from the lottery.  It prevented them from buying a bow tag.If they bought their bow tag, then it prevented them from getting a gratis tag - which yes, that would have added a tag for the lottery. How many would actually do that though? I'm thinking it's pretty small number.Really boils to down which 1 tag system you are referring to - I may have missed that.The 1 tag system previously proposed and shot down - I asked this question:If that plan were to have been implemented, there may have been X number (past  discussions said it might be 7,000 to 10,000) of bow hunters that were no longer  in the lottery due to wanting to keep the statewide bow option.  If that were to  have happened, would that simply have reduced the number of people in the  lottery OR would it have actually increased the tags in the lottery? A: The idea behind the one deer plan was to reduce the  competition in the gun lottery, not add licenses to the lottery due to a lower  number of bow licenses being sold. reminder this is from December 2017 -Do the archery tags being issued today, have any impact on the number of  licenses available for rifle tags/gratis tags?  It’s  possible but probably not a big factor at this point.  We use several different  methods to determine how many deer tags to issue each year, are the number of  deer being harvested by archers making a difference in the overall number of  deer on the landscape which would then make a difference in the number of  licenses being issued for gun tags? A number of years ago I would say that  answer was most definitely a no, but the harvest associated with archery hunting  has also increased a fair amount over the last 10 years to where we can no  longer say that number is insignificant. </blockquote>

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