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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 19, 2016 15:24:06 GMT -5
Deer per day of Early archery season. Basically took the early archery total harvest and divided by the number of days from 10/1 until start of Firearms season. I know Early archery technically goes until the beginning of the bonus antlerless season, but we can assume the majority killed by a bow were done in the days before gun season. It appears up until crossbows were legal, more and more deer were being killed per day by archery equipment. Seems to have leveled out a bit after 2012, but it's still too early to make a definite conclusion.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 6, 2016 14:05:41 GMT -5
Here's some more interesting data... Yellow is total available tags sold (excludes landowner, AFAIK) The blues are firearms kills and total kills. Looks like the total harvest trends pretty closely to the overall harvest, which you may expect due to the firearms season providing >60% of the harvests. The jump in tags sold in 2012 is obviously due to the bundle being offered.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 6, 2016 8:34:52 GMT -5
The only metric that would show some effect of HPRs would be comparing hunter success of this year to years past. But unfortunately, we don't have that data.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 6, 2016 8:02:28 GMT -5
Do you have the start Dates for the chart above? If so please post it...
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2016 9:01:09 GMT -5
Last year on this date 2015 was 107,228, only 241 lower. Looks like this year will be about the same as last year or just a slight lower. Looks like HPR had very little effect. Not sure how you can come to that conclusion by just looking at the over all kill there's way to many variables. Some could say if we didn't have HPR,s rifles we could be about 3k lower at this point...and so on. What about the "new weak or non-speaking English newcomers in the county and the lack of local jobs" and "suspect survival poaching year round has increased significantly" you posted about also....to many variables...IMO I see your point, but would we ever really be able to know the true effect of HPRs then? All we DO know is the total harvest now and what it was in year's past. If this year's numbers are close to last years, then we know whatever factors that could increase or decrease the numbers balanced each other out.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2016 7:04:42 GMT -5
Past Firearms seasons numbers... We're well within the natural variation of past seasons. For a down over all season? Still within 3% of last year, I think.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2016 6:54:02 GMT -5
Past Firearms seasons numbers... We're well within the natural variation of past seasons.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2016 6:26:20 GMT -5
We were down 2400 compared to last year, not up. We are up for gun season kills.... That what he is talking about OK I see that now.
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Post by arlowe13 on Dec 5, 2016 6:18:27 GMT -5
2400 more with perfect weather ,and hunting a reduced herd with HPR could be a huge difference .. Plus The HPR,s will shine in the Late Doe season !! But still way too early to come to any conclusion , And I guess this would be called being the Devils Advocate lol We were down 2400 compared to last year, not up.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 27, 2016 18:33:49 GMT -5
Got my lights up.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 23, 2016 16:50:30 GMT -5
Dec26-Jan1 private land only, counties with 4 or more quota Private Land?....first I heard of that!!! Got a link to the info? The only regulations I see on the DNR's website is counties with 4+ bonus antlerless and that DNR-managed wildlife areas are excluded.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 21, 2016 21:47:00 GMT -5
The beginning of my display for this year. I bought one off the laser lights too this year. Tried it out tonight, pretty slick.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 21, 2016 21:07:28 GMT -5
glad I don't hunt up north in the flatlands If I had a fear of being shot by another hunter with a HPR, I'd feel a lot safer on flat ground. At least they would be shooting at a downward angle or horizontal at most, putting the bullet in the dirt within 500 yards. Same scenario in hilly country, and a hunter could shoot uphill and put the bullet into the sky, where it could travel miles. For sure, I'd much rather be on flat ground with HPR's being shot around me.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 20, 2016 20:31:02 GMT -5
I went out this evening for the first hunt since last Sunday evening. At 4:45 PM, a small buck came past searching for does. I hoped that he'd find some and run them back to me. Sure enough, around 15 minutes later, I saw deer running in circles through the woods a couple hundred yards away. At 5:05 PM, here came a large group of does meandering along with no buck in tow. I picked out the big lead one, put the crosshairs on her and fired. It sounded like a nail gun, and the group just lunged forward a few steps and started looking around. I could have taken a second one (and had a tag), but I prefer not to take more than one doe a year off each farm. I recently had a dog steal my deer knife, so I used a retractable roofing knife (razor) to field dress her. Lol! They definitely don't know how to react when shooting with a silencer. The other deer around didn't know what to do, or what happened. It's definitely still "loud", my dad heard my shot 900 yards away, but he could tell it was me that shot...got a text a minute after I shot "That sounded like a suppressed .308".
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 20, 2016 19:30:56 GMT -5
Rich Eldridge Peru, Indiana 36pts 11/19/16
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 17, 2016 9:58:11 GMT -5
SCORING IS UP TO DATE.
LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY BOO-BOOS. Team 5's points seem a little "inflated" lol.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 16, 2016 7:18:20 GMT -5
That's the big 9 you were closing in on his pattern, corrrect? Congrats to your father. Great deer! Yep, it was.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 15, 2016 19:30:52 GMT -5
My dad shot one of our target bucks tonight.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 13, 2016 18:40:08 GMT -5
Will county results be available eventually? Yes, when the summary is released in 2017.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 13, 2016 15:27:28 GMT -5
Team 7 Doe
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