Awhile back I did a post on the accuracy (or lack of)of their herd counts and some of the well known posters here really dinged me on it so I won't say much.
Personally I wouldn't believe anything they put out except maybe the draw statistics. Those are pretty much taken right out of their computer.Everything else, they take some limited survey and then let their computers do the modeling for the results.
I don't hunt a lot of units, but the ones I have generally have not agreed with their figures
I agree. The accuracy of the herd counts is based on modeling, and I think the method results in posted counts that are 5 to 10 years earlier than what is on the ground. They will base leftover tag allotments on inputs from sportsmen, ranchers, farmers, chambers of commerce, and other entities having monetary interests in addition to biologists. 5 or 10 years after antelope(for example) have been exterminated from a particular range, they will once again limit tag numbers.
