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What is "Seeing a lot of deer?"
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5264525" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>We track how often hunters hunt as well as how much time hunters spend on stand and deer seen to calculate both the percent of hunts (a "hunt" being any time a hunter climbs into a stand) with deer/buck sightings, but also the average amount of time a hunter has to hunt to see a deer/buck (deer/buck sighting rate). I suspect what we see on our hunting property is pretty far below what most hunters would find acceptable, even though our deer density is not that low. We simply have very low-visibility habitat, which means most deer sightings are very close-range. Even in a moderate density herd, if deer have to be "bow-range" close to see them, you don't see them very often!</p><p></p><p>Over the last 20 years, hunter sighting stats:</p><p></p><p>Hunts with a deer sighting: 44%</p><p>Hunts with an antlered buck sighting (any age): 23%</p><p>Average treestand time between deer sightings: 2.6 hours</p><p>Average time between antlered buck sighting (any age): 9.2 hours</p><p>Average time between 2 1/2 year-old or older buck sighting: 23.8 hours</p><p>Average time between 3 1/2 year-old or older buck sighting: 83.3 hours</p><p></p><p>How many hunters would be happy with these sighting rates?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5264525, member: 17"] We track how often hunters hunt as well as how much time hunters spend on stand and deer seen to calculate both the percent of hunts (a "hunt" being any time a hunter climbs into a stand) with deer/buck sightings, but also the average amount of time a hunter has to hunt to see a deer/buck (deer/buck sighting rate). I suspect what we see on our hunting property is pretty far below what most hunters would find acceptable, even though our deer density is not that low. We simply have very low-visibility habitat, which means most deer sightings are very close-range. Even in a moderate density herd, if deer have to be "bow-range" close to see them, you don't see them very often! Over the last 20 years, hunter sighting stats: Hunts with a deer sighting: 44% Hunts with an antlered buck sighting (any age): 23% Average treestand time between deer sightings: 2.6 hours Average time between antlered buck sighting (any age): 9.2 hours Average time between 2 1/2 year-old or older buck sighting: 23.8 hours Average time between 3 1/2 year-old or older buck sighting: 83.3 hours How many hunters would be happy with these sighting rates? [/QUOTE]
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