Maybe RSB can help us out with the most recent ratios of antlerless license per doe harvest but when the success rate per license has decreased, more tags are required to effect the same harvest.
Here are the antler less deer hunter success rates for the past twenty-six years. I have also posted them in five year averages since 1984.
Year…………..License required to harvest one antler less deer…………………five year average
1982.……………………….3.12.………… …………………............................. .......N/A
1983.……………………….4.25.………… …………………............................. .......N/A
1984.……………………….3.83
1985.……………………….3.24
1986.……………………….3.78
1987.……………………….3.49
1988.……………………….3.10.………… …………………............................. .......3.49
1989.……………………….3.16
1990.……………………….3.32
1991.……………………….3.55
1992.……………………….3.61
1993.……………………….3.07.………… …………………............................. .......3.34
1994.……………………….3.27
1995.……………………….3.12
1996.……………………….4.21
1997.……………………….3.34
1998.……………………….4.54.………… …………………............................. .......3.70
1999.……………………….4.79
2000.……………………….2.90
2001.……………………….2.76
2002.……………………….2.92
2003.……………………….3.42.………… …………………............................. .......3.36
2004.……………………….3.65
2005.……………………….3.76
2006.……………………….3.80
2007.……………………….4.04
2008.……………………….3.98.………… …………………............................. .......3.84
R.S. Bodenhorn