Quota hunts can be hit or miss. Quota and State park hunts are great ways to get into normally restricted hunting areas. The downside is scouting the area can be...interesting. Sometimes you only have a short amount of time, plus an area you scouted that looks great to you can also look great to others, and it becomes a case of first come/first served. But, again...when hunting is only allowed at a location a total of 2-8 days....
For example, the hunt im in on this year is the Coosawattee hunt. Limited to 400 people, im on the second hunt which goes on in mid-december. Its great because theres all sorts of fire roads cut thru, so on hunt days you can normally drive in 90% of the way. The downside...they dont open up the gates to those roads to the day before. So your scouting will all be on foot, and you can spend all day covering an area just so you can plan a 10 minute drive and hope you are beating everyone else to the site. Some people, (and this year that number may include me) drive in the night before and camp in spot. One feller even pulled his camper in and set it up in a open turnaround.
State park hunts tend to be the most sought after. For example, Red Top Mountain holds 1 2-day hunt a year. Its limited to 40 people, and it normally takes about 3-4 years to build enough priority points to get in. But for those 2 days those 40 people, plus however many wardens are on site, are the only people in the park.
