The number of bowhunters in the states would be interesting to see along side this info. If a state has 1000000000000 monster bucks but only 1 bowhunter, the number would still be 1.
Also Hunters/huntable sq. mi...........
NO idea how many bowhunters we have.....but we killed 83,665 antlered bucks here in '07 (gun and bow). We killed 11,429 DEER via bow. Extrapolating from the total harvest (more bucks than does, AGAIN, BTW.....not including BB's).....we would have taken 1,600 total antlered bucks via archery tackle, total......in the entire state.
Without knowing the number of bowhunters we have, though.....you can't figure the odds of killing a "book" deer.
But using Pa's %-age.....let's say 1/3 of our state's hunters are bowhunters. So we have 100,000 bowhunters.......killing 1,600 antlered bucks. That would make your odds of success on an antlered buck at .016. Citing 10 for the number of "book" entries from our state, last year......Your odds of connecting on a "book" buck would then be .00001
In the eloquent words of one of them dumbass dumb and dumber guys.....
"So you're sayin' there's a chance!"
