Someone help me understand. According
>to the report all the
>Wasatch units combined have a
>total deer population of 35,500
>animals. If fish and
>game estimates there are 15
>bucks per 100 doe's, that
>leaves 5,325 total bucks.
>The recommended tag number is
>11,900 total buck tags.
>That means that every damn
>buck could be killed and
>there would still be half
>the hunters without a deer.
> I know that it
>doesn't work out like that,
>but it seems screwed up
>that the division sells more
>product then they have.
>Like an airline selling too
>many seats on a plane.
>
>
>If I'm wrong tell me.
"Factor in that success rates run no more than 20% ish. So figure 2500 bucks will be killed."
I understand that. I appreciate the response, but.. I still feel that fish and game should not sell more tags then they have bucks, bulls, goats, sheep, bears, whatever. What if everyone had a banner year? Too many animals are taken from the herd. This is one of the reasons, IMO that the deer herd is suffering so much.
Since this is the elk forum, I will give you another example. The Wasatch received WAY too many cow tags last year, and it was a slaughter. Fish and game finally pulled their head out and dropped cow tags down to 350 this year. I don't understand the mentality of sell, sell, sell, and then when its painfully obvious that the herds are not recovering, then they drop tags.
On another note, Bull tags increased again on the Wasatch units. Might only take a couple points to draw it before long. Of course there wont be enough bulls to go around, but by golly everyone will have a tag.
