This will never give an accurate number. We all know that. Here is my example from way back.
I remember back in the mid 80's when I was cutting my teeth on turkey hunting, I was hunting a little public land close to my house. They had a sign in box with a binder in it where you recorded your kill/date. There was no one ever there to personally record your kill. I killed one at the very end of the season and took note of the number of reported kills. As I recall, it was a low number like 8 birds or something like that. Well, the final harvest report came out for all the WMA's in the AL Game and Fish Magazine a month or so later. The number reported was exactly double the number of recorded birds. I was 19 or 20 at the time and pretty ignorant about this stuff but just remember knowing they are padding these numbers but couldn't figure out why.
Dr. B
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