scooter
12-12-2003, 12:57 AM
So, what do you all make of this? I got this e-mailed to me a couple of days ago and am curious about it.
Any ideas?
It has come to my recent attention that there is a small group of hunters who have had more than luck on their side on obtaining some of the draws. Thais past summer someone pointed out to me how there is a couple of hunters from the Whitecourt area always seem to get the hard to obtain licenses. I was told that one individual and his wife drew tags for goat the first year, then one of his buddies got the tag this past season. I kind of passed it off as someone's luck making others jealous. When this was originally brought to my attention I was told "you watch this year there will be these guys from Whitecourt getting drawn for goat and 408 sheep". Since then I kind of forgot about this "lucky group" until this past week. While looking on the ABA website at some of the hunters who post their success on the website, I noticed that a hunter from Whitecourt was lucky enough to get drawn for goat, and kill one with his bow to boot. Then I noticed that this guys "lucky streak" continued. He also obtained a tag for the coveted 408 post season, and killed a ram on this tag.
From mostly second hand info, this is the count on their "luck":
The both got drawn for 408 sheep- 2 tags
They have had 3 goat tags -3 tags
At least one was drawn for 437 sheep- -1 tag
After I saw the post of the successful hunter on the ABA website, I phoned Ryk Visscher to find out if anyone else has said anything about this. Ryk informed me that F&W and ISM know about it, and appairantly these guys knew how to manipulate the system. Ryk did not know much more than me about it, and said that I was the first person who has called him about it. From what Ryk knew these guys knew how to get drawn by when they phoned in and checked their draws? I think that there must be more to it than this. How would they figure this out on their own? As the above outlines, there is still way more questions than answers at this point. At this point, I am telling as many people about this as I can. My computer was recently hit with a virus, and I lost my address book. Please forward this to as many people that you know who you feel should be made aware of this. At the lease F&W, and ISM have to come out with a press release to explain how this could happen. If anyone has any more info, please reply.
Any ideas?
It has come to my recent attention that there is a small group of hunters who have had more than luck on their side on obtaining some of the draws. Thais past summer someone pointed out to me how there is a couple of hunters from the Whitecourt area always seem to get the hard to obtain licenses. I was told that one individual and his wife drew tags for goat the first year, then one of his buddies got the tag this past season. I kind of passed it off as someone's luck making others jealous. When this was originally brought to my attention I was told "you watch this year there will be these guys from Whitecourt getting drawn for goat and 408 sheep". Since then I kind of forgot about this "lucky group" until this past week. While looking on the ABA website at some of the hunters who post their success on the website, I noticed that a hunter from Whitecourt was lucky enough to get drawn for goat, and kill one with his bow to boot. Then I noticed that this guys "lucky streak" continued. He also obtained a tag for the coveted 408 post season, and killed a ram on this tag.
From mostly second hand info, this is the count on their "luck":
The both got drawn for 408 sheep- 2 tags
They have had 3 goat tags -3 tags
At least one was drawn for 437 sheep- -1 tag
After I saw the post of the successful hunter on the ABA website, I phoned Ryk Visscher to find out if anyone else has said anything about this. Ryk informed me that F&W and ISM know about it, and appairantly these guys knew how to manipulate the system. Ryk did not know much more than me about it, and said that I was the first person who has called him about it. From what Ryk knew these guys knew how to get drawn by when they phoned in and checked their draws? I think that there must be more to it than this. How would they figure this out on their own? As the above outlines, there is still way more questions than answers at this point. At this point, I am telling as many people about this as I can. My computer was recently hit with a virus, and I lost my address book. Please forward this to as many people that you know who you feel should be made aware of this. At the lease F&W, and ISM have to come out with a press release to explain how this could happen. If anyone has any more info, please reply.