Im sad. Im a first year hunter, and I tried to draw for EVERYTHING in BC.
I got nothing.
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This is not meant to pick you out, or refer to you in person, but just using you to prove a point.
One reason the draw in BC has such great odds against a successful draw, is because of people like you!
You said you put in a draw for everything. As a first time hunter there is no way you were prepared for, "everything." You put in draws for a lot of animals that you could not possibly hope to get, for example, the exotic game, goats, caribou, sheep, grizzly.
Again, I am not singling you out. I had a good friend who would sometimes get four or five drawn animals, and maybe, just maybe, he would go on one hunt for one specie, likely a moose. The draws he didn't use deprived someone who was maybe prepared and capable, to go on the long, usually costly, trips for the more exotic game.
Early in the draw system, when getting a hunting licence meant walking into a sports shop and saying you were a BC resident, the envirenmental, save the animals pressure groups, used to get a hunter number and put in for draws for that very reason, to deprive someone of a chance to hunt. I suppose some of this is still carried on.
By the way, you had tough luck in not getting any draws. I put in last spring for a grizzly and this fall for a shared moose hunt with my family, and didn't get a draw. In the shared moose draw, I entered with my son and grandson, three of us to share one moose. We put in for an area where there was one chance in five of getting a draw, but our three draws drew a blank!
