checking stations and hunt camps, by visits to deep freeze lockers, through post- 

 season mail and telephone surveys, and from reports forwarded by hunt camp 

 cooperators. Of 140,000 deer licences sold in Ontario, over 30,000 were sampled 

 in the mail and telephone surveys and 28,000 hunters were interviewed at 

 checking stations and in the field. Their hunting successes are recorded in Table 2. 



Table 2 



1965 DEER HUNTING SUCCESS 



District 



No. 



Residents 



Checked 



No. Non- 



Residents 



Checked 



Total 

 Hunters 

 Checked 



% 

 Success 



Lindsay 



Tweed 



Kemptville 



Pembroke 



Parry Sound 



North Bay 



Sudbury 



Manitoulin Island 

 Sault Ste. Marie . 



Lake Erie* 



Bruce Peninsula .... 



Lake Simcoe* 



Kenora* 



Fort Frances* 



Sioux Lookout* 

 Port Arthur* 



3489 



2987 



2691 



1230 



5882 



695 



743 



3099 



669 



894 



3038 



1099 



3577 



2819 



788 



4280 



66 



15 

 90 

 24 



149 



278 



1924 

 468 

 179 



* — These districts obtained data from mail or telephone surveys and this information 

 is not strictly comparable with information collected at checking stations or in the 

 field by other districts. 



A three day open season on white-tailed deer was enjoyed by many hunters 

 in three of the nine counties in Lake Erie Forest District. Hunter success 

 increased from 10.9% in 1964 to 15.2% in 1965 although licence sales for the 

 counties declined. In the northern five townships of Bruce County in the Lake 

 Huron Forest District, deer hunting was permitted from November 8 to 13, 1965. 

 Due to poor weather and the dilution of normal hunting pressure occasioned by 

 many hunters choosing to hunt in the southern counties, hunter success in the 

 Bruce Peninsula declined slightly this year. Average hunter success in the 

 Southern counties was 15.0% with an estimated 1913 deer being harvested. A 

 special short season on the Meaford Tank Range in St. Vincent Township, Grey 

 County, open to a maximum of 50 hunters each day, was considered very 

 successful with hunting success recorded at 83.7%. Fog and rain greeted hunters 

 on opening day of the deer season in the seventeen agricultural townships of Lake 

 Simcoe Forest District. This bad weather along with intermittent rain on the 

 following days discouraged many sportsmen from participating in the hunt. With 

 fewer hunters afield and discouraging hunting conditions, less deer were harvested. 

 Consequently, a moderate decrease in hunter success from 12.6% in 1964 to 

 10.7% in 1965 this year was recorded. 



Hunting statistics collected by Lands and Forests staff of the Lindsay Forest 

 District at road checking stations indicate that over-all hunter success of 21.2% 

 in 1965 was somewhat better than results of the 1964 hunt, despite cold, wet 

 weather this year. Organized deer hunters in Crown and private land camps had a 

 success rate of 45.7% similar to the 1964 success rate, whereas casual hunter 

 success improved slightly from 6.2% to 7.5%. 



Farther east in the Tweed Forest District, no great change in general 

 success rates between the years 1964 and 1965 occurred. However, hunter success 



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