Membership renewals are a pretty good poll--in fact, it doesn't get any better. I don't know what kind of issue polling UBP leadership does of its members, but whatever it is, itseems to beabout as accurate as the PGC's deer harvest figures.
My gun club left PFSC in part because of their support of the PGC deer policies (there were other issues too). Anybody remember the "kill the deer" conference that Audubon held a few years ago that they were a part of that got this ball rolling? It's coming back to bite them.