5 Things You Should Know About the Alaska Drawing Hunt Permit System
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Why no permit this year? You're just plain unlucky.
Some hunters claim to have participated in the drawing for years without ever being selected, yet know others who have been drawn multiple times. Why? Alaska uses a random drawing process to distribute hunting permits in cases where there are fewer permits than the number of hunters applying for that hunt. Each person that applies for a hunt is entered into the pool and names are selected randomly, like pulling names out of a hat. Because this year's drawing does not use information about those that were drawn in previous years, it is possible that some people will be drawn more than others, by random luck.