elkfromabove
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I thought "we" wanted lower success rates in order to issue MORE tags! If not, give me back my apples!So?
My Question Is This:
How Low Should We Let A Success Rate Get Be Fore We Do Something With The Unit?
I thought "we" wanted lower success rates in order to issue MORE tags! If not, give me back my apples!
Finally, somebody noticed!! We lost 8,502 GS hunters and that's because we lost 6,722 GS tags! (1,457 Archery, 1,526 Muzzy, 3,739 Any Weapon)Thanks for sharing.
It appears that a lot of hunters said the hell with it.
Opps! I forgot the early GS data and some of my math is wrong.Did the bans on baiting and trail cams work?
GS Archery---2022--18.6%---10,855 hunters---1,573 bucks
---------------2023--17.8%-----8,830 hunters---2,011 bucks
GS Muzzy----2022--25.6%----14,795 hunters---3,793 bucks
---------------2023--28.8%-----9,693 hunters---2,790 bucks
GS AnyWpn--2022--52.8%----25,113 hunters--13,267 bucks
---------------2023--33.0%----21,048 hunters---6,951 bucks
That's quite a difference in the Any Weapon success rates and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of the baiting ban! You don't need to use bait to get them in close if you're using a rifle or muzzy.
Finally, somebody noticed!! We lost 8,502 GS hunters and that's because we lost 6,722 GS tags! (1,457 Archery, 1,526 Muzzy, 3,739 Any Weapon)
Opps! I forgot the early GS data and some of my math is wrong.
It was getting late last night and I started dozing off!
Here's how it should be as near as I can tell:
GS Archery---2022--14.5%---10,855 hunters---1,573 bucks
---------------2023--22.8%----8,830 hunters---2,011 bucks
GS Muzzy----2022--25.6%----14,795 hunters---3,793 bucks
---------------2023--28.8%------9,693 hunters--2,790 bucks
GS AnyWpn--2022--50.6%----27,937 hunters---14,144 bucks
---------------2023--32.8%----23,249 hunters---7,623 bucks
It was another tag reduction! We're slowly reducing tags because we're slowly reducing the deer herds. Some of it isn't anything we can manage (weather, drought, human encroachment, disease, etc.), but those things we can manage aren't being managed scientifically. They are being managed socially (too crowded, archery vs muzzleloaders vs rifles, private land vs public land, trophies vs opportunity, etc.)I hate to be the guy and ask you but where did the 6,722 tags go? Was there major tag reduction or what?
I don't follow Utah that closely, so I don't know what you're alluding to other than maybe the fact that baiting big mule deer and 40 trail cameras over a water tank is bullshit.
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