Don' t get me wrong: I' m not looking for perfection by any means. But SAK has had such glaring statistical problems with it an audit of the result is way overdue.

Basically, here' s how it now works. SAK uses the previous year' s buck kill as one of the main variables to calculate the deer population. It doesn' t take into account the effect of T-zones and other antlerless kills. No wonder it appears that the population estimates are off by as much as 20%! So here we are, having all sorts of t-zones supposedly because so many units are " overpopulated" .

This has little to do with deer biology and more to do with statistical sampling. This method is flawed, plain and simple.

We were better off in the old days counting deer turds.