Just another number to toss out there, sorry Scott, didn't think of this one earlier....PA hunters killed 354,390 deer in 2005, and Ohio hunters killed 209,513. Now, those are gun/bow kills, not just bow, but that's a success rate of 33% and 29% respectively.......
I'll add to that mess..........
If we have 1,100,000 licensed hunters who kill those 354,390 deer(rough estimate on the number of hunters but the percentage comes out close)
With one hunter taking 1 deer then the % makes sense...........however even I can get tags for 4 deer outside of the special regs areas. So I can shoot 1 buck and 3 antlerless deer with my bow and that stat makes it look like 4 hunters were successful.
Now throw in the high density areas of the state (special regs areas with unlimited tags) and you can have a minority of hunters just racking up harvest numbers for the rest of the state.
Then you can throw in the fact that the PGC ESTIMATES the deerkill based on some rediculously low return on harvest report cards and butcher sampling.
Basically its a GUESS.
Anybody want to spend a season hunting with me? (Bring your prozac.
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