They told me mid-February: “I haven’t even received the raw dataset from our vendor yet. It takes a significant amount of time to check the registration data; a number of errors occur that can be corrected (e.g., people enter dates in backwards, register with wrong license…). It may be mid-February since I don’t have the data yet. “
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I do have an android phone. I’ll have to check to see if Virgin caries any card readers made for their phones. I wasn’t able to tell if all readers were made for a model of phone or was that all marketing?
They’re universal. buy one from Amazon or something, don’t buy one from a store, usually you’ll save quite a bit of money.
Your android phone has a mirco USB port to charge through, and it can also run data through.
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My Galaxy would need to come out of the otter case, pop the back off, then insert. A pain in the
for me, so i gave up. I just carry my Nikon camera and pop the SD card in and view
Actually, with what he’s talking about, you’d just plug a cable into the charging port on your phone. That’s the Micro USB.
Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/iKross-Micro-USB-Memory-Reader-Adapter/dp/B00CMM8XZ8
It should work, in theory. It depends on how the phone looks at it though. I doubt that an iphone would do it, but most android phones should be able to browse to it using a file viewer app like Astro and view the pictures without any trouble.
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Minnesota gets the exact same data, and could estimate the yearling population in exactly the same way the Wisconsin DNR does.
Could…but don’t
The numbers are out there, it’s just a matter of putting it into that formula. Since I know you are so educated on the matter, have you asked Mr. Grund why he doesn’t use this formula?
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The only question on age of a deer is if its a fawn or adult. No mention of age.
I’m all for it. Missouri does it as well as Minnesota. We do it with turkeys. The amount of money paid to registration stations, added to the DNR staff that tabulate all the registration info can be spent in other, more useful ways.
The guys that sit in the bar after hunting go there wether they have a deer to register or not. I don’t stay after registering my deer. I need to get home, hang, cape and skin my deer. Then I need to empty the truck and re-stock the lunch cooler. Then I wash my clothes. Then I can shower and have a bite to eat before I collapse for the evening. Morning comes and its hopefully a repeat of the prior day.
Its time for the Wisconsin DNR to enter the 21st century and do away with hand written, paper registrations
WI DNR gathers data from registrations to be used in the SAK formula http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WildlifeHabitat/documents/DTR/SAKformula.pdf
So what are the options when registering a deer in Wisconsin?
The SAK formula uses the exact same data that Minnesota’s registrations provide. Adult doe harvest, Adult buck harvest, and fawn harvest. There’s nothing in there that mentions age of harvest except for the DNR’s own estimates of the yearling population. Minnesota gets the exact same data, and could estimate the yearling population in exactly the same way the Wisconsin DNR does.
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Probably why the MN (and now WI) DNR decided to say the heck with in person registration. Registration station attendants were largely untrained and didn’t give two rips about registering correctly. There’s a difference with registration data in WI and MN though. WI actually gets some data about the age of bucks registered which drives the SAK formula. MN doesn’t keep any kind of data on maturity of bucks.
How do they do that? Do they trust the hunters to know that they shot a 2 year old buck and not a 4 year old?
It’s just as easy to manipulate at a registration station. No one checks the deer that you bring to see that you’re registering what you say you are. Heck, most people don’t even bring the deer!
It hasn’t hurt any business in Minnesota, if people want to brag about their deer, they’re still going to take it to the bar.
Steve,
You do realize that the only reason MDHA was opposed to the regulation was because they wanted it to be voluntary and not a regulation right? Directly in-line with the QDM philosophy.
MDHA was also opposed to the regulation due to the survey that “hunter support” was based on. The questions were written to directly lead respondents to answer the question the way the DNR wanted them to.
MDHA certainly doesn’t advocate people shooting little bucks all the time, but they also don’t advocate regulating away someone’s decision on what they want to consider a successful hunt. A large focus of MDHA is education, and education involves teaching people ways to manage the herd.
I suggest you get in touch with MDHA’s corporate office and find out what their beliefs truly are, and not what you read in an Outdoor News article, or hear from Ted W. or Mr. Sieve, or the rest of the BWA friends with an agenda.
