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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 180964" data-attributes="member: 314">This thread also makes me laugh.....A LOT!!!!  If you want to play the math game, take the estimated number of deer killed with a rifle and get the percentage.  Take the estimated number of deer killed with a bow and get the percentage and then take the estimated number of deer killed from insurance claims and get a percentage.  Then take the estimated number of deer killed by winter and add in the estimated number of deer killed by disease along with the estimated number of deer killed by predators and get those percentages.  If you added them all together and subtracted that number from the estimated deer population in ND, I'm surprised I even SEE a deer in ND.  What you guys have to realize is that NOBODY knows how many deer we have and what we are dealing with here is an estimate plus an estimate plus an estimate plus and estimate plus and estimate plus and estimate subtracted from an estimate.  That results in what we in the military called a SWAG (Sophisticated wild ass GUESS).  Yet we still have deer to chase every year.  The current system IS NOT BROKE!!!  It's fair and equal for all.  Argue your numbers all you want.  I can statistically show that the deer populations in ND or any part of ND is directly related to the number of bullheads caught at the bullhead tourney and so can any other statistically knowledgeable person.  I can make a set of numbers say ANYTHING I WANT IT TO SAY.  It was the very first exercise we did in Basic Stats.  Compare anything to anything.  It didn't matter what you compared it worked out.  All I have to do is use the right set of statistical analyses and comparisons and viola, the "Chicken Little" apocalyptic panic machine is humming right along.  Even out west where the winter was HORRIBLE this past year, there are still lots of deer.  I went turkey hunting west of Mandan this spring like I do every spring and I saw lots of deer while hunting.  Here's a thought.  When you stop seeing deer throughout the year, the producers quit complaining about winter depredations, and you don't have to slow down at least a dozen times during the year to avoid hitting a deer, then you can start worrying.  Dividing sportsmen over pettiness is the number one tactic for anti-hunters and this thread seems to be helping that agenda right along.  Lets try to get a grip here shall we fellas?????</blockquote>

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