Hello Bob,
I was able to talk with our draw section this morning to determine the sequence of issuing permit 15 for hunt 3117. Here is what happened. During the initial computer draw, you were unsuccessful in drawing an elk permit. However, the person who drew permit 15 had a bad credit card and was rejected. We reissue permits from rejected applications by going to the next application that would have been drawn. Your application was the next one. When this happens, we just reissue the same permit number rather than generating a new one.
In the initial draw, permit numbers are issued sequentially regardless of residency.
