I mined the first Archery Deer.pdf and came up with the below stats. I haven't called and talked to the stats guy yet but (for whatever reason) the access permit harvest summary is slightly different regarding #'s than the first document.
Cliffs: There were 31,109 archery deer licenses issued in 2018 (26,660 resident, 4,449 nonresident
The projected harvest for the archery season was 8,088 deer (4,930 whitetail bucks, 1,902 whitetail does, 1,115 mule deer bucks, and 141 mule deer does). The hunter success rate for the season was 30%.
The five deer management units with the highest reported harvest by residents were the Black Hills, Brown, Minnehaha, Yankton, and Brookings, and by nonresidents were the Black Hills, Brown, Gregory, West Harding, and Custer National Forest.
Resident success 28% Non-Resident success 39%
Residents killed 609 Mule Deer Bucks Non-Residents killed 488 Mule Deer Bucks
Custer National Forest (35L) Resident permits issued 733 Non-Resident permits issued 415
Projected Residents that actually hunted 343 Projected Non-Residents that actually hunted 282
Resident success 6% non-resident success 17%
Mule Deer Bucks Harvested by Residents 14 Mule Deer Bucks Harvested by non-residents 37
Black Hills Mule Deer Resident archers are projected to have killed 95 Mule Deer Bucks Non-Resident archers are projected to have killed 34 Mule Deer Bucks
2. If someone is going to take the time to travel out of state and spend the money hunting somewhere they don't live...they want to fill their tag and take home some meat. They have no real stake in the local herd or it's health, so they don't necessarily care if they killed a young animal or female. They may just want to "fill their tag and freezer."
Speculation but I think it's pretty sound.
IF you could take out the "last day" of the hunt for a NR I think it would tip the scales more evenly in regards to success rates. But I don't think a majority of NR hunters think that way,, just enough to move the numbers a bit.
