The forms returned by owners of hunt camps gave information on hunter 

 success on each day of the season. These figures Indicate that success may 

 vary considerably from day to day and that no set pattern of kill, such as has 

 been described for upland game birds, exists. 



With the Increase In hunting pressure since the war an element of 

 competition has been growing so that opening day assumes greater Importance In 

 the hunters calendar. While hunters success Is usually high on opening day 

 these kill distribution figures Indicate that It may sometimes rise even higher 

 later In the season. Indeed the North Bay figures show the highest success 

 occurring during the last week of the season. The hunters* success averages 

 for each week In North Bay for 1955 were 9.9^* 14.6^, 14.75^ and 22.2^. These 

 dally hunter success figures have been summarized In the form of graphs. 

 North Bay, Pembroke, Lindsay and Tweed for 1955 and Tweed for 195^ have been 

 reproduced here. 



The effects of weather on hunting Is always a topic of discussion In 

 deer hunting camps. Before this can be properly understood many factors must 

 be considered. 



Temperature, wind, times and amounts of rain and snowfall, whether 

 the ground Is frozen, waterlogged, dry or snow covered all affect the hunt. 



We lack measurements of most of these factors at this time so that 

 no complete evaluation of the effects of each or their combination Is possible. 



The rain and snowfall figures from a single meteorological station 

 in each District plotted as histograms on the hunter success graphs do suggest 

 that hunting deteriorates on rainy days. On all the graphs combined rain Is 

 recorded as having fallen on 21 occar'lons. In 17 cases It Is possible to 

 compare the success rates on the day of rain with that of the previous day. 

 Hunting success deteriorated In 11 cases. Improved In 3 and no appreciable 

 change Is apparent three times. In Lindsay, Tweed and Pembroke hunters' success 

 improved on the day after snow except when It fell on the opening two days of 

 the hunt. In North Bay the figures are not as clear cut as this but the snow 

 which lay on the ground during the last week of the season may have been 

 responsible for the fact that hunting success was more than twice as high than 

 during the first week when the ground was bare. 



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