Confusion looking up stats, please help!

[Dbax129]

Thanks to Jackelope and Bob33.  That clears it up for me completely. 
One other question, why is it that only 51 of people were awarded permits when 58 people applied?  This hunt choice offers 100 permits, so why did 7 of those 58 not get awarded a permit?  Could this have been their 2nd choice and they drew their 1st choice?

My guess is that the 7 just chose to not buy the tag. It's nearly $70.

OOO, that makes total sense.  For a minute I was thinking about other types of special permits, like not in the 2nd deer category.  Those don't cost extra right? They just provide a different opportunity within your general tag? 
I could definitely see people not buying the extra tag for whatever reason since its more than their first.

[bobcat]

i'm probably way less experienced at figuring this stuff out, but from what I would assume (and I think that is all one can do here) is that the 15 people that didn't return a report are probably mostly people who did not hunt.

Or they're just the people who happen to have the money to pay an extra $10 when they buy their hunting license the following year.   

[Dbax129]

hmm... yeah, i guess there are lots of reasons why people wouldn't end up reporting...