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Originally Posted by sheephunter
That works if the success rate is high but it's not. There arent a lot of legal sheep out there and there is a line up of hunters to kill them. You take less than 7% of the hunters out of the pool each year and isn't going to change the harvest numbers significantly....it can't. Sure there are guys with multiple rams but unless I'm really out of touch, I can't imagine there are more than a handful of guys that kill a ram every two years. And when did management become about punishing those that work hard and are good at what they do? I would like to think that resident opportunities were equal for all.......regardless of skill level.
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I guess I disagree with the way you add up the harvest when you limit hunting numbers you might be right but the other way of looking at it is this way and this is what SRD is looking at when they suggest wait times.
7%/year x 5 = 35 %. I know some will take friends some new ones show up whatever, the reality is there are less hunters. If there are 180 rams harvested/ year with 7% less hunters even 2% less harvested means 4 left behind. If you multilpy that by 5 it becomes 20. It doesn't seem like much but if you add these numbers over time it does make a difference. That is just about one extra ram per zone per year.
Now if you extend that to real numbers 35% less hunters to 35% less harvested (I don't even believe these numbers just being thourough) that means 60 extra rams 2 per zone.
Which is right???