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Great, that's awesome. So that's what it means is the board is on. Okay, I understand now. I have a

Courage Fill to get a light a red and a green. Yeah, like you'd imagine on the old days, right? Like the old FM radio days, but yeah,

this is not. It's not in his DNA. I can do it. No, what's, so what's the, what's your L. Cunning situation going on right now? Are you have you been out? Nope. And well, here's I drew. I just got back from Moose Hunt. Okay. Um, and I drew.

What is arguably the most coveted tag in in my state in Montana? If you ask that question, you'd get two answers, maybe. Like what is the most coveted L. Tag? Right. Um, and I drew one of them.

So nor much of the state, the bowl, I shouldn't say the bulk of the state. Yeah, I guess like the bulk of the L. Cunning in the state is over the counter. Right. Residents, you just buy that the gas station or online. But we have, we have, um, limited draw units. And years ago, they carved out this chunk of ground that that sits on the north west.

Border of Yellowstone National Park. Oh, right. And it used to be a general unit. You just be like the elk unit, right? And I haven't, I keep meaning to get into the history of it because I have a friend whose relative was instrumental in creating this thing called the buffer zone.

And it's a little over 50 square miles that sits up against the park. Right. And they give out five elk tags every year for the buffer zone. And you can't even hunt deer in it. Right. Okay. So just so no one's in their hunting deer. There's no cow tags. It's just five. It might even be either sick. Even just five elk tags for 50 square miles. And what it does is it gets elk.

As elk are migrating out of the park, it gives them kind of well a buffer. Yeah.

Between as they're exiting the park and dispersing around because they follow some, some of those elk that live in Yellowstone follow some pretty predictable migratory routes.

And before they fan out and going various paths. And so I think it's meant to kind of soften the migration exit out of there. There are resident elk there, but kind of the real gem is when they start moving out of the high country, like out of what, what is Yellowstone National Park and start moving out.

I was going to go and hunt it archery and then hunt it for rifle. Right. But then I got a kind of a cool deer hunt opportunity down at Idaho where I also drew a tag. It's not as cool, but worth going.

I'm going to go do that. And then I'm going to dedicate the last couple weeks of our general firearm to really hanging out in the buffer zone. Oh, that's great.

Gosh. So that's so is it, is it a point system up here then?

They this state does when you tell you at the risk of telling you something you already know you have states that don't do anything.

Yep. Alaska Idaho, New Mexico, everybody's in the draw together. There's no building points. Then you have these states do what they call preference points where the max point holders are given a certain slot of the draw.

So they might say like, okay, 70% of the tags will go to whoever has the most points. And so once you're a max point holder, you have a guarantee of drawing it.

And it does something that kind of gets a symbol winds up doing, I guess, the same function is a square of your points. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So I've never drawn a limited draw out tag in this state. So I think my name was in the hat 400 and sometimes. Okay.

Because you get squared, you get squared. Meanwhile, my son, his name was in the hat one time. Right. So I had to jump on him. Yeah. Like you know, yeah.

So I don't, but I don't know how many, I mean, there are dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of people who have all the points. Yeah. But it helps out.

So that's how they run it here for all the, for all the limited entry stuff. Yeah. So what's your, I kind of know the answer because I think that's the answer.

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