QuotaLady
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- If you miss putting in one year, your priority points are not affected. You won't gain that year, but you won't lose any either.
- One quota hunt doesn't affect the other. If you are drawn for a Spring Turkey hunt, it will not influence your priority status or bearing on whether you will be drawn for a WMA hunt.
- If you are drawn for ANY hunt choice, your priority point status will reset to zero for the following year and you will not gain a point for that year. Example: if you put President's Island for your first hunt choice and Oak Ridge for your second hunt choice and you have 5 priority points, your points were used to award you your second hunt choice and your priority points balance for the next year will be zero.
- Your priority is YOURS; the only time party priority is considered is during the drawing. Priority points are rounded to the nearest number. If you have 2 points and your buddy has 0, you are going in the 1-point priority point category.
- Regardless of the mistake made on an application you can correct it...UNTIL the deadline passes! You can review your application on the website https://quotahunt.gooutdoorstennessee.com/Hunts/CustomerLookup.aspx
- There are NO priority point systems for the Elk, Youth Elk and Season Long WMA Waterfowl quota hunts.
- TWRA's quota hunt program does not have a "buy a point" feature, BUT new for 2021, you have the ability to submit a "Points Only" application. This option is available for individual applications only and not an option for party applications. The application period for a point only application is the same as the regular drawing application.
- Number of drawings and number of hunt choices are two completely different things. You may choose 1 drawing and enter up to 15 hunt choices on your application. You may also choose 2 drawings and enter only 2 hunt choices.
- If you are hunting in a party, the first one in your party will "create a new party" and therefore be the party leader. The party leader chooses the number of drawings and the hunt choices and whether to allow lower priority members to join the party. The party leader can add members to their party during the creation of his/her application. Members must submit their TWRA ID number and their last name to the party leader for this option. The other option to join the party is for the party leader to give you his/her 6-digit party number and you log in and apply to join the party. The party number links the leader with the member so that if the leader is drawn, all the members are drawn.
- Your application is NOT complete and I have NO record of it, until you get a confirmation number. When applications are accepted into the quota hunt system, it sends the confirmation number back to notify the user that their application is complete and in the system.
- You will get a new party number every year. They do not carry over from one year to another.
- You DO NOT have to apply with the same folks every year. You can apply alone one year, in a party of 10 the next and a party of 5 the year after that. It will not affect your priority status. The exception being if you allow lower priority members to join your party.
- Obtaining leftover permits does NOT affect your priority point status. Those permits are allocated after the drawing.
- How applicants are selected: The drawing program sorts applications by priority from greatest to least. A random number is assigned to each party leader (EXCEPT for WATERFOWL, see bottom for those drawing specifics). The drawing program runs through the applicants from smallest number to largest. The hunt choices are considered in the order that they are put on the application. If there is quota available for the first hunt choice, the application (regardless of whether it's an individual or party application) is awarded that hunt and the drawing program moves on to the next applicant. If the first hunt choice has no quota available, the drawing program then examines the second choice, and continues in the order choices are submitted, until it comes to a hunt choice with quota available or runs out of choices. If the application runs out of choices before a choice with quota available is found, the application is marked as unsuccessful and the drawing program moves to the next applicant.
- The quota is reduced by the number of applicants in the party when a hunt choice is awarded. Example: is the quota is 50 and the application awarded to that hunt has a party leader and 4 members, the quota available for that hunt is reduced to 45.
- The draw system is designed to overfill the quota in the case where there is only one quota remaining and the application selected is a party application. For example, there is one quota left for a hunt and the application selected has a leader and 4 members. The party will be successful and the system will overfill the hunt by 4.
ELK
If you are successfully drawn for an Elk hunt, you are prohibited from being successfully drawn again for 10 years.
Sandhill Crane
You are required to pass a Sandhill Crane identification test every year.
WATERFOWL
- All applicants (Individuals, Party Leaders and Party Members) are assigned a random number during the initial phase of the drawing. If you have a party of 8, your party will have 8 chances of being drawn.
- Each individual is required to submit an NOI to retain their permit award.
- Each individual is required to submit a Post Season Survey
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