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hirteen lucky hunters are counting their lucky stars for Wyoming’s new
sheep at least eight must be available. All money goes toward conservation eff orts, Pauley adds, with hunters able to
lottery. In May, they won the right to bypass the conventional preference purchase as many tickets as they choose. And winning doesn’t negate previously accrued preference points, with the fi ve-year waiting periods for moose and sheep, point system and hunt coveted big game in Wyoming.
For the fi rst time, the state raffl ed off 13 big game hunting tags to give hunters a and once-in-a-lifetime restrictions on bison and mountain goats, waived.
shot at harvesting trophies without waiting years or breaking the bank. Like Northwest Colorado, Wyoming is known for its big game and hunting PhoTo CouRTeSY oF ColoRADo PARKS AnD WIlDlIFe
demand. It’s also historically used a limited draw and preference points to determine allocation — meaning a wait of nearly two decades and/or buying expensive auction tags to hunt prime locations (last year, a bighorn sheep tag sold for $80,000). So this year, Wyoming Game and Fish off ered the Super Tag and Super Tag Trifecta license raffl es to open those species up. “Our preference point system helps address the opportunity to hunt big game, but it can still take up to 18 years,” Wyoming Game and Fish’s Glenn Pauley says. “This raffl e provides that to a broader audience.” The Super Tag raffl e selected 10 winners, one for each of Wyoming’s 10 premier big game species: antelope, bighorn sheep, bison, black bear, deer, elk, gray wolf, mountain goat, mountain lion and Shiras moose. The Super Tag Trifecta awarded
one hunter the chance to select three tags of his or her choice. The areas for the bighorn sheep is one of 10 species included in Wyoming’s new Super Tag hunting license Raffle, giving moose tag winner are limited to units with at least 10 tags available; for bighorn hunters a chance to hunt premier big game species without a decade-long wait.
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