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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traxion" data-source="post: 179880" data-attributes="member: 983">I have a feeling change is coming on this front.  There is a presentation floating out there from one of the members of the deer stakeholders group proposing a radical change-<a href="https://youtu.be/LWGGzGfqB94" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/LWGGzGfqB94</a>A quick run down of the video proposal (I stole from another site)-Residents can only get ONE state wide archery tag.  This tag would be good on public and private lands statewide which are not part of several identified large tracts of public land which would require a special limited entry permit (Black Hills and Custer National forests, Fort Pierre and Buffalo Gap national grasslands).  This is a change from the TWO tags a resident or nonresident can currently get, one east of the MO river and one west of the MO river good on all lands public and private.  In order to hunt one of the large public areas I listed, an archer would have to make that specific permit his first choice in the RIFLE DRAW and forego obtaining any firearms permit in the first draw(or take his chances that there may be a leftover limited entry archery permit in draw #2).  So archery guys that want to hunt decent public lands that we hunt now have to give up gun hunting basically(I don't gun hunt much but tons of guys I know do and this is a big deal to them).  Non-residents can only have one buck tag as I understand it.  So if you hunt archery, no gun tag and vice versa.  However, if you have a gun tag you can buy an archery stamp and use your gun tag during the archery season for the specified unit.Really interesting ideas.  I am not for it but am quite interested to see how things play out.   Right now, where I live, I can get my West River tag each year.  Along with a West River Archery.  I have a 50% chance at a Black Hills tag too.  Muzzy tag is getting tougher, I have 3 years and nothing yet.  So I can have 4 buck tags if all plays out well.  I have not done well on leftovers lately so I don't consider that.  Doe tags you can get a pile, that is all I know LOL!Feel sorry for some of you Nodak folks.  That is a long time to wait on your preferred unit.   While I understand there are tags available, traveling to another unit isn't exactly easy either.  Often you end up on public land with 100 other schmucks.  That is the crappy part about leftover tags.  But a hunt is a hunt.  Keeping folks interested in deer hunting is a serious challenge with those draw statistics.</blockquote>

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