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>>We keep hearing this number being
>>brought up but where is
>>it coming from?
>>Does anyone have data or proof
>>of this claim?
>>Where are the reports of this
>>many deer being in the
>>state in one year?
>>And how many years were there
>>this many deer in the
>>state?
>>I would really like to see
>>the document.
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>There is none as far as
>I've checked with DWR, Utah
>State Archives, Salt Lake Tribune,
>Deseret News & Google.
>
>I first heard the idea from
>DeLoss Christenson (Lumpy) on the
>2014 Mule Deer Committee who
>claimed to calculate it from
>harvest records based on current
>harvest data. At the time,
>the DWR and most of
>the committee members challenged it,
>but DeLoss maintained he was
>right (Actually, he came up
>with 1,200,000 originally, but backed
>down to 800,000 when he
>got challenged.) and apparently he
>told his son, Muley 73,
>and that's who most of
>you heard it from.
>
>The DWR has used other calculations
>to come up with a
>possible, but not probable, 600,000.
>But even that is questionable.
>We simply don't know based
>on harvest records because deer
>permits were issued for every
>hunting license, licenses were over
>the counter and unlimited, either
>sex permits were normal, party
>hunting wasn't considered illegal, harvest
>surveys were taken over the
>phone by untrained seasonal employees,
>and computers were mostly non-existent.
>Past harvest data just isn't
>reliable.
>
>And, of course, Muley 73 occasionally
>uses that number whenever it
>suits his purpose, so take
>it with a grain (or
>gallon ) of salt!
Hey EFA!
Can You Find the Posts where Lumpy Claimed them kind of Numbers as of anytime Recently?
I Don't Remember Him Claiming that in recent years?
I know so many people in so many places
They make allot of money but they got sad faces
It Ain't Easy being Me!