87 kills out 410 hunters 21% success rate so far.

1 team having 80% success rate

We have step it up a notch!!

We also have three No bows, so I would say 90[8D]

I would have to say we have a better rate than that. The contest is only bucks. There are a bunch of guys here that have dropped does and that too is successful hunting.

Yes I agree!!

I'm batting a thousand...

Yes, that is pretty good. There have also been an unbelievable number of great, great bucks taken this year, including yours Germ. That is one heck of a buck!

That's actually pretty good, b/c in Pennsylvania, the archery hunter success rate for antlered deer is around 10% (28,700 bucks in '05 for approx. 300,000 archery hunters).

On its face, 21% seems low, but when you think about it, we're actually doing pretty well as a group. Tagging a whitetail buck with your bow isn't easy, and those harvest report numbers from Pennsylvania reflect that. I'd attribute our increased success rateto the fact that(at least from my experience)the guys who frequent and contribute to this type of websiterepresent a large part ofthe most informed and dedicated segment of the hunting population.

Congrats to the guys who have been successful so far,and I'm sure that there are some guys who are still hunting whowill come through in the next month or so.

I agree! Great job and congrats to all of us that have harvested a deer. And good luck to everyone that is still out there hunting every chance they get.

There are a couple yet to be scored like HCH's and our President Todd Graf's. Looking forward to seeing many many more. I'd like to see 410 but we all know that bowhunting percentages are not that forgiving.