Opinion polls are totally meaningless unless they are done in a manner that they collect an unbiased sampling of unbiased questions.

The polls you quoted don’t fit the billing of unbiased on either of those fronts.

That is the reason professional polling firms are contracted by the various agencies to get the true results of what the public does or doesn’t support and what they want to see for the future. The professional polls done by unbiased professional firms do show that the majority of the hunters and the general public support the current deer management direction and objectives.

When I get time I will dig up the results of some of the more recent professional and unbiased and polls dealing with subjects of interest for deer hunters.

R.S. Bodenhorn