<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Straightarrow, do you and wolfen get your "facts" from the same book?
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No, there's no book.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Admittedly, it's a guess. The actual percentage could be 90% or 98%. Who knows for sure? I referring to the number of hunters who will pass on a legal buck that walks by. If it's more than 1 out of 20, I'd be very surprised.
I'll use New York State as an example. There will be in the vicinity of 1/2 million deer hunters in the state this year. The vast majority of these hunters will go out in the field for no more than 3 days and many of these will only spend a couple hours hunting in any one day. Virtually everyone of these hunters will shoot the first legal buck they see. If they have a doe permit, many will shoot the first doe they see. I will also venture to say that out of the more hard core hunters that hunt a week or longer, a majority of those will also shoot the first legal buck they see.
I personally only know two hunters who will pass on a juvenile buck, while waiting for something older. They are both bowhunters. I know a lot of hunters, way over a 100! I'm sure in some states the percentage is lower - maybe 80-85%, but overall the states with the most hunters tend to have fewer selective hunters. So, even though Kansas may have 20% who are selective, they don't have anywhere near the number of hunters that New York or PA has. Add them all together and it's probably somewhere in the 90 percentile that will shoot the first legal buck.