Southern Boys With Guns

[C.O.B.]

I think Michigan has almost 1 million licensed deer hunters.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

I think Michigan has almost 1 million licensed deer hunters.

Actually, Michigan has about 1,005,000 licensed deer hunters---about 110,000 more than Wisconsin, but Wisconsin deer hunters killed 70,000 more deer than Michiganders . . .which proves we're more efficient hunters and better shots!

[C.O.B.]

I think were just more selective...less does and spikes.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Actually, Michigan has about 1,005,000 licensed deer hunters---about 110,000 more than Wisconsin, but Wisconsin deer hunters killed 70,000 more deer than Michiganders . . .which proves we're more efficient hunters and better shots!

The "rub" in the whole equation is the average number of deer killed per person . Which typically looks good .

But in a state like Virginia where a person can get ALOT of bonus tags etc . And then you figure the amount of hunters that "actually" killed deer the figures get skewed quite a bit . About 40% of the license holders actually kill all the deer . And generally of the 40 or so percent who actually tagged something about 1/10 of those were the major killers or harvestors .