I believe that the current GC number is much closer to accurate. Chuckie thinks 70% of us are cheating and avoiding the GC system, because the numbers aren't lining up with the elusive survey numbers. But I never believed those SWAG survey numbers anyway. I don't believe we have the millions of deer that ALFA and AWF would like you think we have. And I don't believe we're killing a half million a year either. Just like I don't believe Auburn's predetermined study that suggests coyotes kill 70% of our deer herd annually. It's all politically motivated bullschit.
I think the vast majority of hunters are in compliance with the laws and the GC numbers are very close to the accurate accounting of deer kills. Whatever that's worth, knowing how many we kill kill, without knowing how many we got.