On Controlled Hunt Draw Success

"Seriously - find out your buddy's `secret'. It's no accident that he is getting drawn and you are not. Find out how he thinks. Discover his mental approach. It sounds like you are in an endless loop of not getting drawn. I suspect that, consciously or unconsciously - he puts in thinking he will get drawn, - and he gets drawn!!! You are probably in a rut thinking you won't get drawn - and, guess what? - you don't get drawn. On the other hand, there is something in your buddy that is pulling (attracting) draw success to him.

"I don't doubt that your strongly want to get drawn ... but attracting success is not based on want, it is based on inner expectation, inner thinking. You are afraid you won't get drawn, and you get what you are afraid of.

"Statistically, the chances that you would NOT get drawn 8 years in a row in that particular draw is really not all that astronomical ... about 60/40. In fact, statistically, for you to put in for 11 years in a row and NOT get drawn would be about a straight 50/50 ... a coin toss. So, statistically, you have nothing to complain about. Illustrated another way: let's say there is a group of 10 of you hunters that have been putting in for the last 8 years for that unit. On the average - six of you would not have been drawn at all during those 8 years, and four would have been drawn (at least once). So, you are actually with the majority.

"But what is interesting is your buddy. For him to get drawn 3 (or more times) in this same eight years is ... assuming he had to sit two of the years out before re-applying (Idaho regs) ... one in 233.

"In other words - you are normal. But your buddy is unique. I think it's worth exploring to find out his `secret'. How does he attract draw success? Otherwise you are stuck with the 195 / 3261 odds each time. In other words - even though you have NOT got drawn for 8 years, your odds next year are still 195 / 3261 ... and the year after that ... and the year after that. So, you could rightfully argue - `Yeah, that's what I'm talking about - the system sucks!' Actually, the system is working perfect ... it is delivering to people what they are attracting.

"The system is working exactly the way you don't want it to but (inwardly) think it will.

"I want the system to stay the way it is. It allows for some magic - for the opportunity to try and BEAT the odds, to beat the statistics. To practice the law of attraction. It's a part of what makes hunting hunting - as opposed to just shooting, or killing, or going to the grocery store to buy our venison - the whole unpredictability of it all - the departure from the deterministic (`modern') world in which we live."