Originally posted by Bryan78:
Originally posted by Jeff Valovich:
[b] You keep saying that and the herd keeps shrinking....there are areas that could use a good reduction(Bloomington), but not my WHOLE F'N COUNTY !!
How many hunters in Indiana kill 3 or more deer in a giving year?... I know it was posted once here and the number was so small that it was pretty much negligible...
So what if you could kill ten deer there... If you don't have ten deer to kill, then it wouldn't matter now would it... You can only take what is there and if isn't there then no one is taking it then...
Jeff your problem is is that you can't look past a number and you think if they would drop that number by one it would make some sort of difference WHEN IT WON'T... :rolleyes: smh [/b]So lets look at what the <5% kill in 2011 anyway. Per only DNR DFW Numbers
So lets break it down: Hunters harvesting 4 deer number 3952.5 harvesting 15,810.04 deer. Hunters harvesting 5 deer number 1482.192 harvesting 7410.96 deer. Hunters harvesting 6 deer number 823.44 harvesteing 4940.64 deer. Hunters harvesting 7 deer number 399.38 harvesting 2305.63 deer. Hunters harvesting 8 deer number 988.13 harvesting 7905.02 deer. So these hunters that harvest 4 or more deer, since there is a one buck rule, they all must be antlerless; harvested an additional 38,372.29 antlerless deer or 29% of the total harvest. That seems to be pretty considerable amount to me. In addition to the fact that the total harvest in 2011 included 50.5 percent females.
