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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5267261" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Just my opinion - after looking at many years of hunter observation data from numerous properties across the Southeast - but I think hunters put too much emphasis on a single year's experience. Having run a lot of photo censuses and seeing how local deer populations DON'T experience major increases or declines year to year (outside of an EHD outbreak), but hunter sightings DO see major year to year increases/declines, far more of what hunters see while hunting is about weather and food sources than about actual deer numbers. What I'm getting at is "what hunters see while hunting" often has very little to do with how many deer are out there. Now at the extremes, you can't see what isn't there, but in the real world I don't see those extremes occurring. I see minor variances in local deer population from year to year, but sometimes massive variances in how many deer hunters see from year to year. It's all about weather and food sources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5267261, member: 17"] Just my opinion - after looking at many years of hunter observation data from numerous properties across the Southeast - but I think hunters put too much emphasis on a single year's experience. Having run a lot of photo censuses and seeing how local deer populations DON'T experience major increases or declines year to year (outside of an EHD outbreak), but hunter sightings DO see major year to year increases/declines, far more of what hunters see while hunting is about weather and food sources than about actual deer numbers. What I'm getting at is "what hunters see while hunting" often has very little to do with how many deer are out there. Now at the extremes, you can't see what isn't there, but in the real world I don't see those extremes occurring. I see minor variances in local deer population from year to year, but sometimes massive variances in how many deer hunters see from year to year. It's all about weather and food sources. [/QUOTE]
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