That can’t be right. There was a guy on here that posted a picture showing that he has 28 preference points

I was selected for Portland bow hunt on Oct 15 but haven’t received an email from the state..

Because it’s Alabama and we have morons running this crap! I’m done applying for these hunts

That sounds great! The less people who apply....the better chance for the ones who do.

Just learned today that if you accept an alternate spot, it deletes all your preference points, even if you don’t end up getting drawn. What a crock of chit.

As we all figured, something is jacked up with their system.

I talked to a guy last year on the crow creek duck hunt that said he had been drawn for that hunt 3 years in a row. That’s some bull crap when there are thousands applying that will never been drawn.

There was another reply on their FB the other day where they (AL WFF) indicated that there have only been an average of 2700 applicants for the SOA hunts. I don't know if that was deer/turkey/duck/small game combined or just deer. That seems a surprisingly low number to me even if it's for only the deer hunts.

That’s crazy.

Wish i would not have read this, as i accepted the alternate at Stimpson. Probably will not be selected as a hunter, and i just dropped 9 preference points.

Wait, so if you accept the "alternate" that is offered, you automatically lose all your points EVEN IF you don't get selected to hunt?

That's some f'ed-up BS right there.


Y'all are straight-up getting played for your money. Might as well just send a check to the Gump every year.

Wish i would not have read this, as i accepted the alternate at Stimpson. Probably will not be selected as a hunter, and i just dropped 9 preference points.

I don’t think my getting drawn so many times was due to not having preference points since they just started really doing think last year. I don’t know what was up with it, it was like the system just chose the same people year after year. One of the guys that worked one of the hunts I went on even said it wasn’t just me, that he saw the same groups of people year after year. Whatever glitch it was causing me to get drawn is fixed now....and I hate it lol

In my case, I'm not spending any more than normal. I hunt WMAs anyway so I would be buying that license regardless of SOA results.

They’ve been doing the points for 3 years. And the guy working the hunt is right, there are a lot of people who have drawn multiple times.



If the DNR employee who told me about the system was giving accurate info, then there is no way that pool reserved for no preference points doesn’t have better odds than the larger pool.

But no matter how it’s happening, it’s bull. They aren’t transparent at all about how the drawing works, and there should never be a possibility of people drawing nearly every year, while 9/10 applicants have never drawn. Every other state I’ve hunted with a draw is very simple. You need a certain amount of points to ensure you get drawn. If you apply, no one with less points will draw ahead of you. In Georgia it was nice, the wma I liked to hunt was a 2-3 year wait. On the 3rd year, I would get drawn and could plan for it ahead of time. If I wanted to go somewhere sooner, I could apply for a less desirable hunt with 1 point and draw. Or if I wanted to be real patient, I could wait 7 or 8 years and draw one that was awesome. But it was all above board. None of this back room chit, that has you two weeks from deer season with no unit assignments or a scouting day announced.