Originally posted by John Scifres: It's tough to glean the total number of hunters. There were 314,283 privileges. That is different than the total number of hunters.
169,801 licenses were sold.
But that doesn't count lifetime licenses. 21,371 deer were killed by Lifetime License holders.
Be extremely crude and not scientific but you could extrapolate a "decent guesstimate" by applying the success rate suspected amongst hunters to the known LTL holder harvests....however we don't know how many of those harvested multiples...and to be fair I'd suspect in the lifetime ranks we have some of the most successful hunters (more seasoned at least...not successful perhaps).
