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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bowhunter12" data-source="post: 494742" data-attributes="member: 897">When are ND residents going to figure it out and start somewhere we can all agree on instead of complaining about all the different options for resident tags....a lottery system for non resident archery hunters with unit, species, and sex specifications!!  There should be an allotment of tags per unit based on the amount of resident rifle antlered tags issued in that unit, lets say a good number would be 5% of issued resident rifle antlered tags for that unit can be the allotment of non resident archery tags.  This is state wide system including western units, species specific.  Nice and easy system.  Archery hunting this day and age has a high success rate, this would definitely help take some of the pressure off in the right direction.  I don't want to hear about the tourism people complaining about loss of revenue, most of the out of state guys camp(campers and tents) or just go back home(especially when hunting in border state units).  They probably spend money on gas once in a while and that's it.  They certainly kill lots of deer!  Currently there is no limit to the amount of state wide whitetail archery tags available to non residents, if I am wrong about this please correct me.  Technically they could sell 50,000 tags, that doesn't happen but there is nothing stopping it from happening.  I am by no means against out of state hunters, but when the resource has continued to decrease over the years, then so should the tags available.  If the numbers go up and rifle tags go up, so do the non resident tags.  Most other states have restrictions set in place for non residents, why not us?  Contact your legislators to make this happen!!!PS - I have no desire to change the resident archery system, if you want a state wide any deer archery tag, then move here and become a tax paying resident.  I would say the vast majority of residents hunt within a hour or 2 of their home spreading out the in state hunters evenly, there are exceptions.</blockquote>

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