A report from the Game Commission,archery licenses sales are up significantly across the state. By August 31 of last year,the agency sold 170,109 archery licenses. By that same date this year,it has sold 210,230, a jump of more than 29 percent.
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Here is the deal. That report compares Aug 31th 2008 sales to Aug 31th 2009.
The GC is using a different system for reporting this year. You can not really use these numbers to draw any meaning full conclusions.
Yep archery tags are up in that table but guess what? so are every other type of tag. Some even higher than archery.
To summarize
As per GC info Aug 31th 2009 compared to Aug 31th Res and NR #'s combined
General License sales up 16.47%
Archery license sales up 23.59%
Muzzie license sales up 16.11%
Bear license sales up 25.24%
Furtakers license sales up 30.29%
Mig bird license sales up 17.61%
anterless license sales up a 117.01%
With fur prices being in the dump, the furtaker numbers are what surprises me. But then again, coyote hunting has become pretty popular, so maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise.
I think we will see archery sales hit 310K+ this year.
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Here is the deal. That report compares Aug 31th 2008 sales to Aug 31th 2009.
The GC is using a different system for reporting this year. You can not really use these numbers to draw any meaning full conclusions.
Yep archery tags are up in that table but guess what? so are every other type of tag. Some even higher than archery.
To summarize
As per GC info Aug 31th 2009 compared to Aug 31th Res and NR #'s combined
General License sales up 16.47%
Archery license sales up 23.59%
Muzzie license sales up 16.11%
Bear license sales up 25.24%
Furtakers license sales up 30.29%
Mig bird license sales up 17.61%
anterless license sales up a 117.01%
Wv Gino
I took for granted they knew how to do the math. I just did a cut and paste from the game commission news letter.
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General License sales up 16.47%
Archery license sales up 23.59%
Muzzie license sales up 16.11%
Bear license sales up 25.24%
Furtakers license sales up 30.29%
Mig bird license sales up 17.61%
anterless license sales up a 117.01%
Wv Gino
Well of course sales are going to be up higher than last years. The reason is because Doe tags are being sent in earlier than last year.
I guess the PGC got their pay raise alsobecause of their 1st 2nd and 3rd WMU choices that was placed this year. We are not stupid here to not see all of this for what it is. It's all about the mighty dollar and killing all the deer off.
Here is the deal. That report compares Aug 31th 2008 sales to Aug 31th 2009.
The GC is using a different system for reporting this year. You can not really use these numbers to draw any meaning full conclusions.
Yep archery tags are up in that table but guess what? so are every other type of tag. Some even higher than archery.
To summarize
As per GC info Aug 31th 2009 compared to Aug 31th Res and NR #'s combined
General License sales up 16.47%
Archery license sales up 23.59%
Muzzie license sales up 16.11%
Bear license sales up 25.24%
Furtakers license sales up 30.29%
Mig bird license sales up 17.61%
anterless license sales up a 117.01%
Wv Gino
So Gino....which system was innacurate...the former, or the PALS? Are we to believe that every past figure published by the PGC, prior to the PALS was grossly inaccurate? Interesting....Wonder if the buck kill will conveniently be up by 23-29% this season as well.....
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You can not really use these numbers to draw any meaning full conclusions.
That's probably the most accurate statement on PGC data that I've ever seen. Nice job.
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Pa. Archery License sales up
