Interesting trivia question RE: KS deer hunting
 

What was the estimated population of whitetail deer in the state of KS in1920?

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ZERO. Just saw that on the outdoor channel...:D

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Incredible, huh? ZERO!

I think they've made a comeback!

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haha well thank god i wasnt alive back then!

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Actually....I suppose it WASN'T RE: KS deer HUNTING.

(Hard to hunt what isn't there.....)

Oh....ooh...ooh...I'm betting they STILL had "ghost bucks" there!!!!!!!!!!:D

LOL....................................!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll have to ask Bawana and DavidMil what they remember about it.[8D]

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Before the the answer, I was seriously going to say 2.

I have no idea why, but I was close:)

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Wow...amazing isnt it!

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You were lucky if you saw a deer in my neck of the woods in the 70's in Kansas. With a heard population of under 400,000 it isn't so surprising. Compared to other states with litterally millions of deer. I'll take the quality over quanity though.

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No ****!.....lol

I grew up about 40 minutes from where I live, now.....and today I see 5-10 deer a day just going to work and coming home (on average).

I left for college in the fall of 1982. At that time.....I could count the number of whitetail deer I had seen on LESS THAN ONE HAND.

Since 1977.......our deer herd has grown over 400% (NC). We DO have over 1M deer, here (1.3M?). I'd rather see less deer....but better deer.......given.

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That is an amazing stat!!:DThanks for sharing!

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I'm buddies with an outfitter out there and he was telling me in the 60's if someone found a deer track people would come from miles around to look at it and take pictures...of a DEER TRACK!

Yeah, they've done pretty well for themselves.

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My dad would tell me how rare it was to see a deer when growing up. I'm only 26, and I can still remember when the KDWP made us draw for resident tags. Now just a few year later, and the KDWP gives them out to everyone (Res or NR)like candy. To me, it's sad to see all of the great work that was done to get the deer population & quality to what it is... but then once money got involved... see the same things start to get undone and the path that KS Deer hunting is taking.

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I had the priveledge to talk to an elderly man when we were filming call footage at Cabelas back in the spring. I was going through a series of deer vocalizations when a man stopped to listen. After we cut the camera he came over and inquired what we were doing.

He was fascinated and then he spoke of the old days and I was facinated. He said he remembered a day that there was a newspaper report that someone saw a deer track in the snow. A TRACK! He mentioned where it was, (xx miles out of the city of Williamsport) and that people drove for miles just to see the trail those tracks left. The people don't remember seeing deer but track made the news.

Today in PA we have an estimated 1.3? million animals as well. Conservation at it's finest.

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I think everywhere you go you can hear a story like that, we hear them in Va and all over, the depression took it's toll on wild game, especially deer if they were around to shoot. Remember, people were starving, they said to hell with a game law we gotta eat.