Soa hunts is a money pit for the state plus cost of staying somewhere at nights during hunt.
SOA hunts don’t cost anything other than a WMA license? I apply and hunt out of state all over the country, I can say without hesitation that our SOA hunts are one of the absolute cheapest hunts to apply for (by orders of magnitude) and I haven’t run into another program that would provide such a high opportunity for harvest short of buying self guided access or paying trespass fees to landowners.
It’s a great opportunity IMO