2023/24 TP&W Draw Hunts

[justletmein]

Dropped another $120 on apps through the 9/15 deadlines. Gotta pace myself before tacking on the Oct deadline hunts. lol

[Mr. Public]

I will if someone can give me the inside scoop on how to hunt the chap with a bow!

I’ll do what I can to help ya

[SC-001]

I had 9 archery deer points and got the chap. I've been hearing that it's not like it used to be. Hopefully I can get something

Dang hunting partner put us in for Chap archery without telling us and drew, guessing the app numbers are way down. Gonna talk to a few more folks about whats going down there but I've not heard good things recently so someone in the 2nd draw will get some if not all of our tags.

[Texas Grown]

I’ll do what I can to help ya

Be gentile with him. He's teetering on the verge of GOF status, now that he's retired.

Edit: "gentle"

[donpablo]

Dang hunting partner put us in for Chap archery without telling us and drew, guessing the app numbers are way down. Gonna talk to a few more folks about whats going down there but I've not heard good things recently so someone in the 2nd draw will get some if not all of our tags.

You're already losing the points. You might as well go and cross your fingers. The genetics are there so you never know.

[SC-001]

You're already losing the points. You might as well go and cross your fingers. The genetics are there so you never know.

LOL, I'll let you explain that to my boss when I'm supposed to be in database training in Wisconsin that week.

[donpablo]

Ouch. Well, I guess we play the cards we're dealt. Sorry.

[Huntindad]

Dang hunting partner put us in for Chap archery without telling us and drew, guessing the app numbers are way down. Gonna talk to a few more folks about whats going down there but I've not heard good things recently so someone in the 2nd draw will get some if not all of our tags.

sorry for your misfortune. Hopefully, it will benefit a TBH'er.

[justletmein]

Just tell the boss it's the Chap, he'll understand!

[Mr. Public]

I believe what is happening with the Chap could possibly be a combination of lack of interest from applicants with high loyalty points not applying due to the recent past history from that WMA, coupled with the point system being cubed for the past several years- in that a large sum of applicants that HAD higher averages of loyalty points have already been selected, therefore applicants with less loyalty points are finding themselves selected.

Explained in a little more detail:

High loyalty point groups have possibly elected not to apply to Chap due to past several years lack of quality game.
AND
Previous high loyalty point groups have already used those points and cashed them in elsewhere or the last few previous years.
AND
Groups/Applicants with less than "high" loyalty points make up the majority of the applicants, thus those groups with "DECENT" loyalty points have higher chances of being drawn.

This is all just my personal thoughts: I will be interested in knowing the total number of applicants this year in comparison to the last couple of years. There may be no decrease at all in the number of applicants, as I predict the amount of attention the TPWD draw hunts have received the past few years on social media has likely skyrocketed the number of applicants.

I think what we are seeing is old school applicants being more aware and conservative with their entries, and new school applicants flooding the draw and applying to everything possible. I think that used to be me infact (years ago)

Regardless- Congrats to those that have drawn. As I've said before on TBH, "Pay no mind to what other hunters have previously experienced or say about a particular WMA, that was there experience & NOT yours. There's too many variables that come into play on these hunts, weather, dates, compartments, skill level, preparation, research, time spent actually hunting (I've seen people waste more time than they actually spent hunting)"

I hope I am able to eat my words and see some TBHers post some south Texas brush country brutes in a few months.

[justletmein]

I just want my warthog dammit.

[CTR0022]

It would be nice if TPWD would post an average preference point it requires to draw said hunt in their statistics.

Example, 10 hunters were drawn last year for X hunt, out of those 10 hunters the average preference point is x.

[justletmein]

It would be nice if TPWD would post an average preference point it requires to draw said hunt in their statistics.

Example, 10 hunters were drawn last year for X hunt, out of those 10 hunters the average preference point is x.

I don't think that's all useful, we don't really have points it's just a raffle system. I guess they could post the average raffle tickets a person had but there's always a few people who bought 1 tickets that throw it off. They'd also have to account for the FACT that first time applicants are weighted.

[Deerguy]

Dang hunting partner put us in for Chap archery without telling us and drew, guessing the app numbers are way down. Gonna talk to a few more folks about whats going down there but I've not heard good things recently so someone in the 2nd draw will get some if not all of our tags.

I saw that Chap posted the photos from their surveys on Facebook, may to take a look at that.

[bowhuntingw]

I drew it last year and should have came home with a p&y but I messed up. I won’t be using points on it any more probably unless things turn around down there. Very tough hunt.