System needs changed

Are you sick of applying for a controlled hunt year after year and never drawing? I am. It doesn’t have to be this way. Other western states have a point system where an unsuccessful attempt allows a hunter to accumulate points for that hunt. Once you have enough points, you can hunt. If this concept makes sense to you, and you’re fed-up with the current (sloppy and unfair) process, I encourage you to write a letter to your Fish and Game Commissioner. I can hear the rebuttal “that kind of computer system is expensive and complicated.” Well, I just flushed $19.50 for (another) unsuccessful attempt at three controlled hunts. There’s some money for the cause. That money should at least buy me a point. As far as difficult to implement, I don’t buy that. My name is on the Fish and Game’s database. If you hunt, yours is too. If our names are already collected, how hard can it be to track points for us? That’s why people graduate with Computer Science degrees. Why not take $10,000 to one of the colleges and give it to the first kid who makes a program that will track points for the FEE PAYING sportsmen?

I’ve been to the Fish and Game meetings. They say a point system isn’t effective and hunters generally don’t like it. Even if the point system has flaws, NOTHING could be worse than the current method.

After many unsuccessful attempts, I can summarize our controlled hunt lottery in one word: WORTHLESS.

Sportsmen, lets change something. Obviously, this isn’t working. But, my neighbor’s wife just drew a nice hunt on her first try! She probably won’t even go. Isn’t that nauseating.

Send your letters to;

Nancy Hadley - Panhandle Region Commissioner

700 Whiskeyjack Rd.

Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Scott Serrano

Chubbuck, Idaho