jcchartboy

Although I can't speak for all areas of the state, I believe these #'s are very misleading. The harvest data are represented as fact. When it is not. This is REPORTED harvest data. I know many people who used to fill in there tags and send them in. However now under the new rules, they do not pick up the phone to call in harvest data.
It does not matter the reason, most people are simply not reporting their deer. In the community I hunt, I would say the reported take was less than half of the actual take.