Originally posted by THROBAK: [b] All the other days that were up was probably due t”Catch up” from lost opportunities opening day you think 🤔
I would imagine days 3-16 of the firearms season being up by roughly 8,500 deer (as compared to last season) were likely hunters trying to make up for the lost opener. But nothing is like the opener. That one day normally accounts for 33% of the total deer killed in the entire firearms season. Cut it by 19,000 deer (as compared to last season) and that drops that 33% of total firearms season harvest to about 10%.
And you can't make all of that up, it's just not going to happen. [/b]
But jjas.......... you're wanting us all to believe that "19,000 more deer would have been shot on opening day" ?? ...... you're not taking into consideration how much lower that number would have been already EVEN with perfect weather conditions due to the overharvesting, several seasons of rifles and more days/weeks to shoot does from years prior..... [/b]
Curious Dew...for years the average amount of harvest that one small opening day of firearm has accounted for roughly 30-35% of the total firearms season harvest. You truly believe we at minimum wouldn't have been back up and around that very consistent figure?
If you don't believe so, why not?
Thanks in advance. Also please don't write diatribe with off shoot points and such, just looking for the answers of the above. Thanks.
