Mandatory Game Survey Reporting

[DanO]

Mandatory game survey is a waste of time. I see the same deer 6 times during my hunt. My buddy that I hunt with sees the deer too. Then my neighbour sees the same deer 3 times. So we all report this large number of deer activity. So how does that help manage the population. We end up will more tags in an area that has less deer. People can lie and say they saw lots of deer hoping to get extra tags the following year.

If the amount of data is large enough that kind of bias can be corrected for. Same with guys over or under reporting their deer sightings. They adjust for that type of scheming. I do agree it's not the best data to manage a population but it's all they seem to be able to afford.

[fratri]

I think they put out the survey way too early as there is a lot of hunting yet to be had.... Sending it out early can make people either forget or make up numbers so they can send it in now before they forget?.... Why the rush?

[trimmer21]

Mine was easy to fill out. It was all ZEROs.

[huntnmachine]

I think they put out the survey way too early as there is a lot of hunting yet to be had.... Sending it out early can make people either forget or make up numbers so they can send it in now before they forget?.... Why the rush?

Agree 100%