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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 195736" data-attributes="member: 709"><p>Trying to compare SD to ND for deer hunting with the present regulations and herd population is comparing apples to oranges.   In 2016  approximately 25% of the deer taken were with bow ( excluding gratis ) or just shy of 20% including gratis, so it does have a big impact on the population</p><p></p><p>[h=1]2016 Deer Season Summarized[/h]<span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Mon, 04/17/2017</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">A total of 44,140 North Dakota deer hunters took approximately 29,300 deer during the 2016 deer gun hunting season, according to a post-season survey conducted by the state Game and Fish Department.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Game and Fish made available 49,000 deer gun licenses last year. Overall hunter success was 66 percent, with each hunter spending an average of 4.4 days in the field.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Hunter success for antlered white-tailed deer was 72 percent, and antlerless whitetail was 60 percent.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Mule deer buck success was 89 percent, and antlerless mule deer was 78 percent.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Hunters with any-antlered or any-antlerless licenses generally harvest white-tailed deer, as these licenses are predominantly in units with mostly whitetails. Buck hunters had a success rate of 71 percent, while doe hunters had a success rate of 66 percent.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Game and Fish issued 13,466 gratis licenses in 2016, and 11,369 hunters harvested 6,593 deer, for a success rate of 58 percent.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">A record 26,755 archery licenses (24,532 resident, 2,223 nonresident) were issued in 2016. In total, 22,071 bow hunters harvested 9,492 deer (8,686 whitetails, 806 mule deer), for a success rate of 43 percent.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">The department is in the process of determining recommendations for licenses in the 2017 deer proclamation. The proclamation will be sent to the governor’s office for approval in late April.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">In addition to harvest rates and winter aerial surveys, the department monitors a number of other population indices to determine license numbers, including depredation reports, hunter observations, input at advisory board meetings, and comments from the public, landowners and department field staff. </span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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