In review of the change…

In review of the change anyone that established hunt groups that was the recommended in the regulations for as long as I have moose hunted (since 2000 ish) are now being put at a disadvantage and I am trying to understand why.

The way I see it -- party hunt groups sizes reduced from 15 to 10 , area of hunt reduced from 5KM to 3KM and going to a point allocation is all putting anyone who hunted in a group at a disadvantage. We have established a group for over 15 years and in most years we were successful (and happy to have a moose tag to share between the 15 ish of us) thus none of our group members would have a >15+ year period of not having a tag. Compare that to guys that have put in single and really should not have had a good chance at tags given our group of 15 pool 1 guys have been unsuccessful 3 out the last 4 years in WMU 28. Given the purposed changes I understand why we as an organized group have been screwed as someone decided to treat groups differently over the last couple years. I am still trying to understand the methodology of that. It seems someone has decided groups are now bad and a couple guys getting tags is better than getting larger groups involved in the hunt and investing money in the communities they are hunting in.

Our group are a mix of family and long time friends who own property and have an established hunt camp. We pooled our resources and invested in the area we hunt which when I read the regulations is what was suggested and why group hunting was established but again it does feel like these changes would put us doing what the regulations suggested at a disadvantage for getting a tag in the future.

I am not sure why a cow tag would not come with a calf tag. Make the calf tag valid for 3 hours within the cow being shot to avoid being used outside of cow and calf kill. Given the purposed allocation if I am understanding correctly to take a cow calf would require two hunters to give up points. We all know the calf will die if the cow is taken so I question this and feel there is a better way to accomplish.

Why have we not done anything with getting draw results out earlier than Aug 1?

Items I do like:

Application fee then hunting fee
Season is open rather than current calf restriction weeks making planning harder for guys that need to book vacation several months in advance.