ORIGINAL: ButchA
I was wrong with the resident/non-resident description. It's all solid "resident" and is total sportsman (hunting & fishing). But... you can filter it even more to look at HUNTING money spent and number of HUNTERS, ...i.e. not total sportsman.
The state data info, I simply grabbed off the internet (Google, wikipedia, US Census, etc..)
The deer harvest info, I grabbed of each states' hunting website (PGC, VA DGIF).
Corrected data:
Number of resident hunters in PA: 933,000
2008 deer harvest: 335,840
Money spent by hunters in PA: $1.7 billion
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Number of resident hunters in VA: 352,000
2008 deer harvest: 253,678
Money spent by hunters in VA: $529 million
Thanks!
Soooo then:
PA's actual success rate per resident hunter is == 36%
and
VA's actual success rate per resident hunter is == 72%
Since VA's reported harvest is an actual reported harvest and since PA adds a ~60% non-reporting rate fudge factor, then comparing aples to apples:
VA's "adjusted" 2008 Harvest would be == 405,885
VA's "adjusted" success rate per resident hunter would be == 1.15
And of course that's assuming me and Al K. Hall didn't happen to make any cyphering errors.
