I do believe that game check has a much greater chance of being accurate the longer it's used. And I also think you can gain fairly accurate information from year to year, now that it's widely accepted. the reason I commented on the last map you posted was because it went back to the early years of game check when bait was legalized and it was HIGHLY inaccurate, then used that data in comparison to the numbers game check produces NOW, which are more accurate. When doing that, of course it's going to show a massive increase in harvest numbers.
Did everybody get busy again ?
So here's a little bit of the conversation where we addressed these same questions about 3 pages ago.......This is why I ignore a lot of the stuff being repetitively asked just for gaslighting purposes......I'll probably ignore more of it in the future.....
So I went back and looked them up for us…..Here’s the numbers for the last 5 seasons for what the hunter survey estimates versus what was checked in to game check ……The last 4 seasons have been extremely stable for compliance rates…..I’m pretty sure that 71% year was the first year they made you have to take a number to the processor……So according to that I would need to bump my totals down slightly in my spread sheet for 5 seasons ago
The 2024-25 hunter survey estimated killing...... 330,400
The 2024-25 game check has us at……..206,000
62% compliance rate
The 2023-24 hunter survey estimated killing...... 314,500
The 2023-24 game check has us at……..202,300
64% compliance
The 2022-23 hunter survey..... 308,700
The 2022-23 game check…..196,700
63% compliance
The 2021-22 hunter survey...... 301,122
The 2021-22 game check……186,500
62% compliance
The 2020-21 hunter survey ......272, 700
The 2020-21 game check..... 195,200
71% compliance
I'm surprised Matt is just gonna completely run from this one though......Any opinion on the increase in doe harvest map Matt??
Increase in doe harvest since 2020......![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/o2dYxHu.jpeg)
