ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
Therefore, your arguments about the number of hunters in one state verses another is just a no point argument. Deer harvests and deer management is all based on getting the correct number of deer harvested regardless of how many hunters are participating in
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Hello M cFly! Anybody in there? Twice as many hunters means less deer per hunter and therefore a lower per hunter success rate.
If ten people sit down at the barbecue and there's 8 burgers, someone aint gettin one! It's a simple enough principle[&:]
BTW, unless you have numbers to back up your idea that Ohio has more land with no deer, that arguement is meaningless. Oh and York may not have any deer within it's city limits wen a highly urbanized city like Pittsburgh has plenty
within it's city limits and, yes, a substantial kill comes out of there every year. I'd bet that some live in and get hunted within the limits of York as well.
I took a minute to look at each states area and population. Ohio has 11.5 million people spread over 41, 000 square miles and Pa has 12.5 million people spread over 45,000 square miles Thats a human population difference on 2 per square mile ( 280 Ohio vs 278 for PA) so an arguement about cities being in the total of both states is totally insignificant.
BT. why is it for the last 5 decades or so in PA. the highest daily deer harvest's have always been on the first day of rifle season, the 2nd day of rifle season, the first saturday of rifle season and the last saturday of rifle season?
BT. said""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""BTW, unless you have numbers to back up your idea that Ohio has more land with no deer, that arguement is meaningless. Oh and York may not have any deer within it's city limits wen a highly urbanized city like Pittsburgh has plenty
within it's city limits and, yes, a substantial kill comes out of there every year. I'd bet that some live in and get hunted within the limits of York as well.
I took a minute to look at each states area and population. Ohio has 11.5 million people spread over 41, 000 square miles and Pa has 12.5 million people spread over 45,000 square miles Thats a human population difference on 2 per square mile ( 280 Ohio vs 278 for PA) so an arguement about cities being in the total of both states is totally insignificant."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" """"""""""""""""""""
BT. I never said that OH. has more land with no deer ( please re read my last post!! And stop trying to spin what I said!) What I said was that for example a higher % of the state of NJ. was made up of area's that had no deer compared to PA., OH. on the other hand (and by the way you just proved my point here!!) has a lower % of land with no deer than PA.
And your 100% right about different cities in different states such as York and Pittsburgh being different!! Thats my point as well!! You cannot compare different urban area's such as York, Pittsburgh, Philly, Trenton, Patterson,Newark, Cleveland, Cinci and Columbus etc. because they are all different!!!! These reasons that you yourself pointed out is why RSB. trying to compare the deer harvest per square mile is useless!!
The only way to fiquire out deer harvest per square mile is to subtract every square inch of land (downtown of cities, walmart parking lots, roads, etc) that doesnt have any deer in each state
and then every square inch that hunting deer isnt permitted and or the discharge of firearms/bows/ weapons etc. is prohibited, and then fiqure out the deer harvest per square mile with the land that is remaining in each state.
By the way is it legal to discharge a firearm with in the city limits of Pittsburgh? Because it isnt legal to discharge a fire arm or bow within the city limits of York.
Manyspurs, Thanks for the info on the 2002 deer harvest!!!! Pike