@RUGER, I'm genuinely sorry for how painful the changes were for you and others on here who have multiple lifetimes' worth of memories under in-person draws, and season-long blinds. May not be as bad as a death in the family, but appears to be about as bad as a divorce. I don't know.
I just hope these threads—which invariably end up not being about the specific thing in a specific place that happened, but the one same thing that happened in March (or was it February?)—are helpful for you getting through it, not making it worse.
I don't think you honestly believe the Commission will reverse any of it. But if it's any consolation, I've only put in for local blinds near me—which I have realistic odds now of drawing multiple times a season instead of banking 4+ preference points to *maybe* hunt 2 days in West TN. If I'm driving west for ducks, I might as well drive a little further past the state line. Don't need a blind to do that. I suspect over time, with point creep, others will do the same. And the pool of applicants will overwhelmingly swing back to West and Middle Tennesseans.
Sort of like how people are gradually bailing out of the President's Island lottery after hitting once; sticking with it only because of sunk costs (i.e. they already have 10 points, might as well put in 2 more years). Some don't even do that.
I just hope these threads—which invariably end up not being about the specific thing in a specific place that happened, but the one same thing that happened in March (or was it February?)—are helpful for you getting through it, not making it worse.
I don't think you honestly believe the Commission will reverse any of it. But if it's any consolation, I've only put in for local blinds near me—which I have realistic odds now of drawing multiple times a season instead of banking 4+ preference points to *maybe* hunt 2 days in West TN. If I'm driving west for ducks, I might as well drive a little further past the state line. Don't need a blind to do that. I suspect over time, with point creep, others will do the same. And the pool of applicants will overwhelmingly swing back to West and Middle Tennesseans.
Sort of like how people are gradually bailing out of the President's Island lottery after hitting once; sticking with it only because of sunk costs (i.e. they already have 10 points, might as well put in 2 more years). Some don't even do that.