ridn9high
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It’s not accurate! They want to break it down by unit, then like mentioned above, mandatory survey for everyone holding a tag. The data will be a lot better. Will it be perfect? Nope! Guys will lie about killing or not killing, but it will be a lot closer than now.the surveying methods and statistical methods to put harvest stats together by cpw have been discussed ad nauseum. they sample - which means not everyone gets a phone call.
so, whoever or whatever ass they came out of, they represent more than nothin, better than nothin, and the biologists do utilize them. take with whatever size salt you want.
A certain unit shows around 50% kill rate for 3rd season deer for 4 consecutive years. We were there 3 of those four years and one of them was a complete slaughter. Gut piles everywhere you went. Deer in almost every pickup. Deer in camps all through the unit. The stars aligned that season with the snow, migration, and rut. Everyone was filling tags. The year before was super dry and warm with no snow. Guys were struggling to fill tags. But, by going off the stats, it would look like those years were the same.
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