Our club is in the second year of participation. It's a good program but it takes time to see results. Your members will have to have realistic expectations and fully commit to collecting the data. If you take shortcuts like guessing body weights instead of weighing them, the data will not be accurate.
Secondly, it should be a long term commitment. I can tell you that we already have members that are second guessing our participation in the program because they had disappointing seasons. I believe the main reason they had disappointing seasons was because 1/3 of our property was thinned and a neighboring landowner clear cut about 500 acres right up to our property line. This drastically changed the deer movement across our lease but these guys didn't change how or where they hunt. Lastly the weather was unusually warm for most of the season which lead to fewer deer being seen on afternoon hunts for much of the year. If your club decides to join, I hope they all agree to stick with it long enough to see some positive results.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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