Which means he's all but guaranteed next year.
I took it to mean he has 8 points with this years pp included. Not 8 plus 1, they've already awarded this years point, right?
8 right now, so 9th is next May is how I take it. I hunted 2008 and 2016 in red oak (8th application got me in). Next "should" be 2024 or 2025 if points to tag holds.
Ok, hard to keep track. I always think of how many I have as I head into pp buying time. Kinda crazy to wait 9 years to pull a tag in Red Oak. We've got alot more bears in that unit than the DNR estimates.
You need to have 9 pts going into the drawing. If the OP has 8 points now, he won't have the required 9 points until 2022. He only has 8 pts going into 2021. You dont get a point for 2021 unless you are unsuccessful, or buy a point.
This is my understanding, why I said what I did.
Maybe the requirement was less when I drew on my 8th application. Which would mean in your scenario I drew with 7 going in.
That would be my bet Sureshot. Red Oak point requirements have been going up for the last few years. The drawing results show a range of points it takes, it will say 8-9 or something like that. In short 100% of applicants with 9 pts drew tags, and a lower percentage drew with 8. You may have been one of the luck applicants in the lower percentage category too.
Well I hope I am wrong. Its always worked out that our camp got a tag considering the hunt year as the point (I know it doesn't give you one). We must have just always been lucky.
4 in red oak? Don't think its possible. Maybe one was donated to him?
If he's got 8 now, he'll have 8 next May when he applies. If he applies and doesn't get drawn, hell have 9, enough for 2022
