Hunt Raffle Impacts

[HornPorn]

Raffles are not a given big money maker in todays world. Right now Oregon WSF has a Desert sheep raffle going and it ends July 10th, we are not even at the break even point yet , we have sold 500 tickets out of 1200 Outfitters are done giving any kind of deal on these hunts. Too many organizations are raffling sheep hunts at the same time. The money we raise goes to wild sheep and habitat .
A raffle is probably the only way I will ever afford to hunt sheep.

It’s getting silly with the number of tickets the chapters are trying to sell. Trying to double their money on sheep hunts. Just three years ago you rarely saw more than 500 tickets. When you got better odds in the state draws, and it’s a species you can hunt in the lower 48, it’s not as compelling

 

[Petcoon]

A big part of the problem is hunt cost, a cheap Dall hunt is 30k or more these days, Stone 80K , Desert 60-65K or more.
Seems that The covid years produced a backlog of hunters and the outfitters never caught up. all while prices kept rising along operating costs. And in some areas sheep numbers are way down.

The state raffles like Oregon for example let you buy unlimited entries so the big money guys dump 30-50K into the raffle and win it once in a while. Rather than buying an auction tag for 300-400K That helps keep the average joe out of the sheep hunting game.

For Oregon WSF to break even on our Desert Sheep raffle we have to sell about 700 tickets , last I heard we were at 500.

It is not likely we will take a chance on raffling a sheep hunt in the future.