The public input aspect of all of this is that without input from observations of hunters from the field, in regard to deer numbers or "inventory", then policy and rule revision will often times only happen after a critical point has been surpassed. Because hunters will generally shoot whatever is in front of them, and since there is no good way to really count the number of deer in Indiana, it is very possible that we could arrive at a year when the harvest crashes dramatically. Individual experience is generally unimportant but a collective experience in regard to deer sightings is very important. Harvest numbers merely reflect that which was available and removed from inventory but has little meaning as to what specifically continues to remain in the inventory. Generally speaking, it seems there is little doubt about the apparent loss of deer or inventory in the field regardless of what the harvest numbers indicate. While illogical, it is possible that there could be only 150,000 deer in inventory before a season and there be 125,000 killed or removed from inventory that year. The difficulty about the discussion is harvest totals while important don't have a direct correlation to remaining inventory. Deer management, being in essence a science, has no right, wrong or absolute mathematical equation.