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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 227332" data-attributes="member: 709">is this what you are talking about Kurt?(KSFY) For the first time in recent history, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission is considering changes to the state's deer hunting license lottery program.<img src="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/690*388/wasting+disease+deer.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Last year, more than 77,000 people applied for a deer hunting license in South Dakota, but just 46 percent received a deer tag. The proposed changes are designed to increase that percentage by more than 20 percent.“We want more people to be able to deer hunt more often rather than sitting at home for three or four years and not hunting for that long,” Game, Fish and Parks Regional Terrestrial Resource supervisor Josh Delger said.Right now hunters can apply for all six firearm deer licenses in South Dakota.“I apply to different places west and east river, so chances are I’m going to get a good tag in one place,” avid South Dakota hunter Doug Ehrmantraut said.If it’s a particularly lucky year, hunters could get multiple tags in that first round.“It is statistically possible for someone to get all of those tags in one year,” Delger said. To spread those tags around to more people, Game, Fish and Parks is recommending an alternative lottery system.“You have to choose one preferred season rather than choosing every single one of those at one time,” Delger said.“There will be no change in the number of tags with this, but by spreading those numbers out it will increase the opportunities to their first choice or first draw,” GFP Commission member Russell Olson said.Delger said nearly 70 percent of hunters only apply for one license a year. Ehrmantraut believes the new proposal will help those types of hunters.“But it will put an effect on is avid hunters like myself who like to get multiple tags on each side of the state. That is going to be a tough hill to climb going forward if this does pass,” Ehrmantraut said.Ehrmantraut worries this new proposal will have a big impact on his favorite past time.“I would like to see the same amount of tags for the same amount of people. Its worked, so I just don't see what is wrong with it,” Ehrman traut said.“I think spreading this out will be a good thing, even if it hurts my chance of drawing multiple deer tags, it at least gives everybody a fair shot at their first round,” Commissioner Olson said. Delger says under the new proposal, hunters could still get multiple deer tags every season, they’d just come later down the line in the draw.Game, Fish and Parks has spent the past two years gathering public input to come up with these proposals and are asking for more feedback from hunters before they make a final decision.The commission is considering three options, which does include keeping the system as it is. They will make their final vote in October. That system will not go in effect until the 20-19 season.You can provide your feedback <a href="https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/?utm_source=icontact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gfp+news&utm_content=" target="_blank">https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/?utm_source=icontact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gfp+news&utm_content=</a></blockquote>

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