An example from the numbers would be
WMU 208, 2010
Going to be going on archery draw in 2013
4 outfitter bow allocations/tags
14 oufitter open/rifle tags available
18 total oufitter allocations
35 landowner antlered mule deer tags sold
45 resident/nr draw tags awarded from 909 applicants
Total 18+35+45= 98 people hunting antlered mule deer in this zone plus an unknown general resident archery mule deer group.
15% harvest is the "F&W archery policy" that moves it to a resident archery draw. So they assume/calculate that at least another 14 residents kill a mule deer with a bow.
This move reduces the resident opportunity here two fold and does nothing to the 18% oufitter allocation or 35% landowner group.
1) adds bowhunters to the resident draw wait times as there is already 909 resident applicants waiting to get drawn here for 4.9% chance of being drawn.
2) removes the opportunity for lower success rate resident bowhunters from buying a general tag and hunting.
There is no actual harvest info in any of the numbers posted, just tag and allocation numbers.
Something is very wrong with they way residents are being treated.
Here is harvest data pulled from the report "Proposed Wildlife Management ChangeANTLERED MULE DEER ARCHERY TO DRAW - AESRD"
Based on three years of online surveys and some unknown srd magic ball massaging.
First line shows that archers had 100% of the harvest in 432 in 3 yrs. But oufitter have 9 allocations per year in 432 and the zone is general for resident mule deer, which apparently no one was successful.
Read: The numbers are bogus
