General Information
Resident Big Game and Landowner
Hunting Licence Draw Procedures
General Provisions
The multi-level draw system was put in place in 1996, in order to
ensure that for species where demand exceeded supply, a clear,
transparent system was put in place to give all Manitoba hunters
who wished an opportunity to hunt those species an equal chance
to do so.
A Draw licence is valid only in the area(s) for which it is issued
and, in the case of a Landowner Licence, only on land owned by
the landowner. Draw Moose and Draw Moose Archery licence
holders are not eligible to purchase a non-draw (General) Moose
licence, a non-draw (General) Conservation Moose licence or nondraw
Archery Moose licence, except under the exchange program.
Following the completion of the draw, a "Notice of Success" and
an "Invoice for Licence Fees" (fee per applicant dependant on
draw entered) will be mailed to the first person listed on each
successful application. Unsuccessful applicants will be advised by
a letter to the first applicant listed on the application.
Each pair of successful applicants (those applying on the same
application) must observe party hunting regulations and must
sign each other's licence prior to beginning their hunt. Either
licensee may hunt alone; however, he/she must have the game
tag on his/her person.
Notice: The number of hunting licences/tags available for draw
hunting seasons may be amended, should conditions warrant.
There will be no exchange, refund or transfer of licences awarded
as a result of a draw. Applicants are required to pay the licence
fees for licences awarded to them.
Youth-Hunting provisions have been extended to include all Draw
licences. The same qualifications and privileges apply.
How It Works
There are five levels of priority operating in this system, Group
1 being the most favourable through to Group 5, the least
favourable.
Applicants will have their personal ranking in the multi-level
draw system assigned as follows:
- All applicants will be assigned a personal ranking of Group 4 in
their first year of application. Note that a "first-time" applicant
to a Draw is a person who has not applied for a Draw in 1996 or
later.
- For each Draw year in which an applicant is not successful
in being awarded a Draw licence, their assigned ranking will be
moved up one level in the following Draw year.
Unsuccessful applicants already at Level 1 will remain at Level 1
in the following Draw year.
Hunters who have applied to the Draw in 1996 or later do not
have to apply every year in order to advance their ranking
for that draw. The system will automatically advance their
ranking one level each year until they win a licence or reach
Group 1. However, in order to win a licence in a particular year,
an application must be made in that year. An applicant who
is successful in being awarded a Draw licence will have their
ranking reassigned to Level 5 for the following Draw year.
- When two applicants holding different assigned rankings
apply on the same application form, the application form
will be entered into the draw at the less favourable of the two
rankings.
- Application forms, according to their overall ranking, will be
processed as follows:
- Group 1 applications will be sorted according to their first
hunting-season choice. Separate draws will be made for
each of the hunting season choices.
- If any licences remain after these draws, all unsuccessful
Group 1 applications will be sorted as to their second hunting-
season choice. Separate draws will be made for those
areas which have licences available.
- If any licences remain after these draws, all Group 2 applications
will be processed in the same fashion as Group 1.
- If any licences remain after these draws, all Group 3 applications
will be processed in the same fashion as Group 1.
- If any licences remain after these draws, all Group 4 applications
will be processed in the same fashion as Group 1.
- If any licences remain after these draws, all Group 5 applications
will be processed in the same fashion as Group 1.
- Results of the draw will be mailed by mid-June each year.
Phone calls regarding the results will not be answered until
this mailing has occurred.
- Applicants awarded licences as a result of an annual Draw will
have their ranking set at Group 5 for the next year's Draw, i.e.,
the effect of the multi-level system is to assign the most recent
Draw winners to the least favourable level commencing in the
following year, (Group 5), and each year, to advance applicant
rankings at the various levels, to the next best level, until they
reach Group 1 or win a licence.
- The multi-level rankings for the Big Game Draw and the
Landowner Elk Draw are independent of each other. (i.e.,
an applicant who is successful in any given Draw will have
his/her level affected only for subsequent Draws that they are
eligible for). However, applicants who become excluded from
draw participation due to a past unpaid draw debt will be
excluded from, and have their priority frozen in all subsequent
licence draws, regardless of the origin of the debt, until the debt is settled.