Would the same reasoning apply to non-resicent archery hunters? If so ,wouldn't you expect non-resident archery license sales to be down by 41% as are the general resident hunting license sales? But, non-resident archery sales were down 71% compared to 2005 and nonresident general license sales were down 60%. How would you explain the apparent descrepency,when you consider the fact that we now have twice as many 2.5+ buck as we did in 2002. Wouldn't it be logical to expect that non-resident archery sales would increase instead of decreasing ,since IMHO the average non-resident archery hunter doesn't buy a tag just to harvest a doe?
Ah, now the gangs all here. DD,er I mean deerfly, you've had several days to stick the numbers in the blender and thats the best you can come up with? Is your spinner broke?
Neville gave a perfectly plausible explanation for the large differences for the numbers and no one here has come up with a realistic counter to his sensible explanation.
Put this in your spinner DD... How is it that doe licnese demand seems roughly the same as this time last year. Lest you forget, NR's had their go at things this past week.
Things arent perfect with our deer managenment and probably never will be but we could have two million deer dasrted tagged and numbered and the USP crowd would still tell us there's not enough deer.
I'd still rather have our herd managed by biologists that can admit theyre struggling with their model than have our deer herd managed by LarryDarryl andDarryl.