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Re: look up harvest data

Postby bill herian » Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:51 pm

Hard to draw much from the data. Every year is different.

I know in Wisconsin, on a normal year the season is closed before certian species really move through in good numbers.

Bag limits also affect hunting pressure. When bluebills were reduced to 1/day, hunters targerted other species, some even passed on bluebills. Cans work much the same way. The data can't account for those variables.

Wet and dry years also have an impact on birds killed, fluctuating temperatures might send birds north and south and keep them in a certian state longer than normal, or might push them through a state overnight where they might have spent several days.

Lastly, we aren't as good at killing these things as we like to think. Harvest reports often paint a poor picture of what is actually out there, espeically in regards to things that migrate.
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:59 pm

bill herian wrote:Hard to draw much from the data. Every year is different.

I know in Wisconsin, on a normal year the season is closed before certian species really move through in good numbers.

Bag limits also affect hunting pressure. When bluebills were reduced to 1/day, hunters targerted other species, some even passed on bluebills. Cans work much the same way. The data can't account for those variables.

Wet and dry years also have an impact on birds killed, fluctuating temperatures might send birds north and south and keep them in a certian state longer than normal, or might push them through a state overnight where they might have spent several days.

Lastly, we aren't as good at killing these things as we like to think. Harvest reports often paint a poor picture of what is actually out there, espeically in regards to things that migrate.

The guy has two posts and you jump all over his nuts. And who passes on bluebills???
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby NuffDaddy » Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:01 pm

I don't think it was meant to show population trends. Just what got shot in specific years.
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby bill herian » Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:36 pm

Mornin Beef wrote:The guy has two posts and you jump all over his nuts. And who passes on bluebills???


Gotta let him know we're a serious group. :geek:

I don't pass on bluebills.

If someone wants to pass on them, I'm shooting his for him.
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:04 pm

Gotcha :thumbsup: I'm just super sensitive for those with super low post counts. I've been in their shoes so many times.
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby The Duck Hammer » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:06 pm

Mornin Beef wrote:Gotcha :thumbsup: I'm just super sensitive for those with super low post counts. I've been in their shoes so many times.


Weren't you the one that said that people only mattered once they had high post counts?
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Re: look up harvest data

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:24 pm

The Duck Hammer wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:Gotcha :thumbsup: I'm just super sensitive for those with super low post counts. I've been in their shoes so many times.


Weren't you the one that said that people only mattered once they had high post counts?

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Re: look up harvest data

Postby The Duck Hammer » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:29 pm

Mornin Beef wrote:
The Duck Hammer wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:Gotcha :thumbsup: I'm just super sensitive for those with super low post counts. I've been in their shoes so many times.


Weren't you the one that said that people only mattered once they had high post counts?

No

I'm almost positive you told me that the first week I was here.


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Re: look up harvest data

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:46 pm

The Duck Hammer wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:
The Duck Hammer wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:Gotcha :thumbsup: I'm just super sensitive for those with super low post counts. I've been in their shoes so many times.


Weren't you the one that said that people only mattered once they had high post counts?

No

I'm almost positive you told me that the first week I was here.


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I think i remember that, it was OBX.
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