ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
ORIGINAL: rybohunter
The total deer taken in wv in 2006 was 137,581. Doe allocations in pa this year 865.000. eye opener aint ???? My wife and I just take 2 and 3day trips to WV just to see deer.
1. If you think that's any whereCLOSE to the actual number of deer taken in WV you are very naive.
2. How many "tags" were needed to reach that 137,581 number? I'm sure the people of WV needed more than 137,582 tags, to fill 137,581 of them.
I hunted WV in both bow and rifle season for many years and I agree 100%. I've never seen any studies on reporting rates in WV. Haven't hunted there lately but when I did, every deerwas suposed togo toa check station. yeah right!
From what I saw with the locals down there, they might have had a reporting rate of 20-30% at the most. Of course, you could legally harvest up to 5 bucks a year there too!
This is why I nevertrusted harvest statistics. A guess at best.