For the most part, it's not the same guys getting tags every year. The 5,500± that went 3/4 and the 4,000± that went 4/4 were probably mostly in-person sales, which would mean the online system is doing a good job at giving tags to people that have not received tags in the previous few years.
It was a different system then, and the deer tags were not unit specific.
That is a lot of speculation. However, if we take it at face value, it's still a very small % of people that were able to do it in each of the last 4 years.
As the data shows and as mentioned twice previously, very few people are getting their tag every year. The majority of the tags are going to people that have only hunted once in Idaho over the last 4 years.
Yes. It does show that. It does not speak to the incidents of multiple proxy purchases, people logging in on multiple devices, etc.
Even so, very few people are doing this and getting a tag every year. It's mostly random allocation.
If there are a significant number of these, they're either not that successful, or very few of them made the choice to buy tags in 3 or 4 of the last 4 years.
Most that try and do not get a tag are going to feel the system is very unfair. In the last 6 years, there haven't been enough tags to give to everyone that wanted one. I would have guessed that around 50% of the tags probably went to repeat tag buyers. That was very incorrect. Instead, almost 2/3 are 1 for 4 in the last 4 years. They have spread out the tags pretty well.
