TPWD Loyalty points question

[44mAG]

How do you find out how many reward points a person has? How many points do you need before you start getting drawn for something?

Texas points just increase your number of names in the draw pool. A person technically can get drawn with zero points for any hunt in the booklet. I have been on a few highly sought after, low odd hunts with less than 3 points, where many people have 20+ in the same category without being drawn.

[sqiggy]

Texas points just increase your number of names in the draw pool. A person technically can get drawn with zero points for any hunt in the booklet. I have been on a few highly sought after, low odd hunts with less than 3 points, where many people have 20+ in the same category without being drawn.

Yep!!!
I have always just put just myself in the Archery hunts. Last year, I added 2 guys to my card. I probably had 6 points and they had zero, so they do an average. I only applied to 2 places, one was just for giggles which was at the Chap. First time ever applying there and I drew. So, it's pretty much "luck of the draw"!!!

[grizzman]

Texas points just increase your number of names in the draw pool. A person technically can get drawn with zero points for any hunt in the booklet. I have been on a few highly sought after, low odd hunts with less than 3 points, where many people have 20+ in the same category without being drawn.

Yeah, usually I will get drawn on hunts when I hit seven or eight. Got drawn for Yoakum Dunes with 8 or 9. Took me 7 to get drawn on Antlerless but got drawn for three when I did, including South Llano. BIL and I had seven or eight last time when we got drawn for GDE at Powderhorn last year.

I also send the TPWD a lot of money each year in application fees and hunt fees and have had good luck over a fifteen year span. Since my GDE points zeroed out last year after getting drawn, I'll be putting me and BIL in for a lot of hunts in that category. I get pickier as my point count goes up in a category.

[Phorizt]

Shoot I kind of wish I could unapply for a couple of hunts now.


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[Texas Grown]

Shoot I kind of wish I could unapply for a couple of hunts now.


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If you skip a year of applying in a certain category (or all categories), you can pick it up the following year. I did this once just a few years ago because I knew I could not go. So I didn't put in for that year. But I first contacted TP&W to confirm before doing it. And have the confirmation email. You don't have to put in for a hunt every year. But you do have to put in for the current year to be drawn, or to gain a point for the current year.


Hope the best for ya in whatever you wanted, or didn't want, out of it.

[justletmein]

On the points and their meaning... I've got either 7-8 or 8-9 points across every category (can't remember what side I'm on) and literally never drawn a hunt, yet every year tons of newbies with 0 in anything draw. So they're definitely more of a nice gesture than an actual point system. One of these years I'm gonna draw 15 hunts and end up screwed. lol

Shoot I kind of wish I could unapply for a couple of hunts now.

You can, email them or call and they'll cancel it for you. I'm not sure if they'll refund your $3 or not. I did that for a youth hunt for my son when his mom said that weekend was a no-go and I didn't want him to draw and burn his points.

[bossbowman]

Shoot I kind of wish I could unapply for a couple of hunts now.


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Call them they might do it, (512)389-4505. Had them change hunt date choices before the draw in the past after I applied and found out later I could not go on certain dates.

[HuntorFish]

Have loyalty points been cubed in past years and I just missed that or is that new? Example if I have 2 points it would be 2x2x2 = 8 points/chances in drawing.

[SamSowell]

Have loyalty points been cubed in past years and I just missed that or is that new? Example if I have 2 points it would be 2x2x2 = 8 points/chances in drawing.

Cubing is new for this year.

[justletmein]

Cubing is new for this year.

Oh good grief I'm probably screwed then, gonna draw 10 freaking hunts.

[HuntorFish]

Also I noticed it only states it under special permit hunts and it does not mention cubing under the NWR hunts.

[grizzman]

Have loyalty points been cubed in past years and I just missed that or is that new? Example if I have 2 points it would be 2x2x2 = 8 points/chances in drawing.

I thought you were kidding until I went to the TPWD Drawn Hunts page. 15 points would be 3,375 if I'm doing this right.

[justletmein]

That's not a terrible thing, it should balance out some of those frustrated with not drawing for lots of years. I just wish they'd have done that in the beginning rather than all of a sudden now, gonna be a big swing this year.

[Texas Grown]

Out of all the years and all the categories I've been putting in, I've only drawn for one hunt. That was a good while back. So yall might as well just give up and don't put in this year. Cause I'm gonna draw them all with this to the third power thing.

[Texas Grown]

Heck, TP&W should just go ahead and send me the permits without having the draw.