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Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« on: July 23, 2018, 08:42:14 AM »
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2018, 08:44:59 AM »
An interesting site for stat research (nope, not my site  ;))

http://huntplanner.us/

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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2018, 08:54:27 AM »
Do you want to make a graph by harvests instead of percentages??  :)
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2018, 08:57:34 AM »
Maybe another chart to show hunter numbers.  That will tell the true story.
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2018, 09:01:27 AM »
Data can be found here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2018, 09:03:24 AM »
Its crazy to see how consistent harvest results are + or - a couple percent.
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2018, 09:10:49 AM »
Hunter reports are very misleading,  If you believe everyone reports correctly on a harvest or not I got some ocean front property to sell ya in Arizona...

Just stating facts.. 
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2018, 09:16:38 AM »
Hunter reports are very misleading,  If you believe everyone reports correctly on a harvest or not I got some ocean front property to sell ya in Arizona...

Just stating facts..

That's likely across the board though.  So let's just say it's 20% under-reported.  That means that pretty much everything is likely 20% low.... So you can still argue that the patterns are relevant regardless of the hard numbers.

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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2018, 09:26:15 AM »
Hunter reports are very misleading,  If you believe everyone reports correctly on a harvest or not I got some ocean front property to sell ya in Arizona...

Just stating facts..

That's likely across the board though.  So let's just say it's 20% under-reported.  That means that pretty much everything is likely 20% low.... So you can still argue that the patterns are relevant regardless of the hard numbers.

True, give or take
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2018, 09:44:48 AM »
Hunter reports are very misleading,  If you believe everyone reports correctly on a harvest or not I got some ocean front property to sell ya in Arizona...

Just stating facts..

I 100% agree the reports aren't accurate but I don't understand why you would want to incorrectly report? What's the gain?

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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2018, 10:06:14 AM »


People misreport for all sorts of reasons, they might think reporting a kill could add up to over harvest numbers and wdfw taking tags away from the unit the next year, etc.


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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2018, 10:28:35 AM »
Hunter reports are very misleading,  If you believe everyone reports correctly on a harvest or not I got some ocean front property to sell ya in Arizona...

Just stating facts..

I can see people who are not successful fibbing on there reports but people who are successful could get hit hard by fibbing.

I don't see the point in not telling the truth on these reports.
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2018, 10:43:33 AM »
General season harvest stats, 1997-2017
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2018, 11:27:12 AM »
Interesting.  I know that they are always tweaking the regulations to get the success percentage close between all users groups.  They pretty much nailed it in 2006, 2010 and 2012.  For the most part they have kept it pretty close.  You can see that years that the archery success is higher than other user groups the following year it is more in line or even lower as they make adjustments.  It seems to hold true for years of high or low modern or muzzy success as well, the following year they make adjustments to try and balance the success rate out.

I do think they are trying to make it as fair for all groups as possible.  Sometimes they get it wrong.  Hind sight/seeing the stats afterwards is always 20/20.
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Re: Washington General Season Deer Harvest: 1997-2017
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2018, 11:52:50 AM »
Hey -- why is everything on a downward slide?
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