Waterfowl Hunter Survey Closes tonight

[Lreynolds]

Originally Posted by Nickt87

Already thanked him for his work in the past. But being told that a veteran opinion is worth less than a rookie opinion is negative, or maybe true, or maybe both, or maybe neither.

It would be beneficial if you re-read what was said. You are taking offense to something that is not true.

According to our surveys, those hunters that have hunted for more years, hunt more days, and kill more ducks (the more dedicated hunters), are also the least satisfied but do not quit. That last part is the most important: they do not quit. So from a hunter recruitment and retention standpoint, we can't learn much from them about how to recruit or maintain hunters. They are recruited and maintained. That doesn't mean their opinions count any less for informing our decisions. It does mean that you don't want it to count any more than the average guy's.

Originally Posted by Nickt87

And I was being drop dead serious about going to the publics launches and doing surveys, not being negative. While jimmy green jeans is checking everyone's shell buckets for lead he can have a tent set up with a clipboard for all that want to fill it out. No more manpower needed than what is already there and all he has to do is set up a tent, a few clipboards, and a drop box.

Actually, that has been done, and it was far more expensive, less representative (how many boat ramps do you have to staff to cover the entire state, and what proportion of our waterfowl hunters don't hunt in those habitats?), and time-consuming than current methods. It is feasible when you have a small geographic focus, like our 2012 survey specific to Catahoula Lake, but even then we spent more for those 400 valid surveys than we spent on any other besides the statewide random mail-out.