Any left in Burke County?
Are there any deer left in Hancock Co?
Anyone having a tough time entering the dates for your birthday or the date you shot your deer? On my Droid and a buddy's, it's a big ordeal to get the dates in there. It's the 3rd entry being a pain, month is find but the day is causing the problem.
So now that we've had nearly a season in the books - I'm curious what the thoughts are on the harvest?
Having looked on the site and pulled the previous years harvests we had 386k deer killed in 2012, 453k in 2013, 412k in 2014, and 363k in 2015. Right now according to the deer map - as of 12/8 there have been 139,688 deer harvested.
There is a month left of the season but I'd have to think the last month would by far be the slowest month. Do we think compliance is relatively low for the first year or do we think the harvest is down significantly from years past?
Charlie,
Why have those doing data entry not entered all kills on all public areas yet? For instance there are only 5 deer total entered from Hard Labor creek State Park.
Information posted here stated many more than that.
I was just looking at this myself and wondering what was up? I think it has to be a compliance issue. A lot of hunters in my club had never even heard of the new system. The ones I told about it just acted annoyed they had to register them this way, and I'm guessing never did it. Drives me crazy when people act like ignorance is a legit reason not to follow new hunting refs. Like they expect a game warden to come knock on everyone's door explaining the system otherwise it's the DNR fault for not letting them know.
I'm glad we have this system now, I've been hoping we could get this kind of county / granular data for years and years.
I agree assuming it is accurate. When I first heard about I was very excited. I'm just concerned about the numbers. Being so low on the new system compared to the old.
Deer from check-in hunts aren't supposed to be entered into Game Check.
I don't think they expected full or even 50% participation the first few years. I believe I remember reading where it took about 5 years for other states that use this system to get to the desired participation level and then it will never be 100%...my bet is around 80 is as good as it will ever be. But that's a BUNCH more data than we have ever had available before!