Also CNC the difference between the Hunter survey and the game check kill data is in no way the GC compliance rate. That’s the accuracy rate for kills reported on game check versus the “estimated” kills derived from extrapolating data from the Hunter survey. The compliance rate is the total number of hunters participating in game check divided by the total number of people hunting deer. In order to have a compliance rate, you have run a calculation using the total number of hunters killing deer (unknown) versus the total number of hunters hunting deer (this includes both licensed, unlicensed illegal, unlicensed but legal due to age young and old and property ownership, and finally lifetime licensed) total also unknown, versus the total number of individual hunters who actually reported deer on game check, should be known, but it’s not reported anywhere. Number of kills has nothing to do with compliance rate. You see CNC, statistics and data analysis might not be your thing. The only thing your charts prove is that more deer are being reported on game check. Problem is that with all the population, regulation, compliance requirements, season changes, processor compliance, economic, social and environmental changes that have occurred over the past 10 yrs, nobody knows what the real cause for the increase in reported GC kills is, and if there really are more or less kills occurring. I’m relatively certain that there are more but how much more is it really. Garbage in, garbage out. Making predictions and managing wildlife based on bad or incomplete data is a recipe for disaster and AL has mastered doing it into an art form.
Last edited by abolt300; 12/13/25 04:22 PM.
