analysis showed significant variation between clusters on several 

 of the characteristics which we examined. Table 18 shows how 

 clusters compare across several hunter characteristics. 



Description of Hunter Types 



Generalist-Enthusiast Hunters These hunters seemed to enjoy 

 nearly every aspect of the deer hunting trip. The three highest 

 rated reasons which they gave for hunting were "for the meat", 

 "for a chance at a big trophy", and "to test my hunting skills". 

 Lowest of importance to this group was having a special permit to 

 hunt an area . 



Meat Hunters Hunters in this cluster seemed most interested in 

 "getting in the meat", and doing this as cheaply and easily as 

 possible. These hunters rated hunting for the meat as their most 

 important motivation and hunting close to home as second in 

 importance. Table 19 shows that on the average this group spent 

 less than half of what the two generalist clusters spent on their 

 trips and less than one sixth what Trophy Hunters spent. This 

 supports the suggestion that this group views meat as a major 

 goal of their trips. Meat Hunters rate hunting for trophies and 

 permit hunting as of low importance . 



Generalist-Meat Hunters This group seems to be somewhat 

 opportunistic in their reasons for hunting. The two highest 

 rated reasons given by this group were good road access to the 

 area and because they had a special permit to hunt the area. 

 Also important to this group was hunting for meat. The 

 Generalist-Meat Hunters rated distance from home and trophy 

 hunting as their least important motivations for taking the trip. 



Trophy Hunters These hunters were most interested in bagging a 

 trophy buck and testing their skills along the way. This was the 

 only group of hunters to rate bagging a trophy as more important 

 than hunting for meat. Access, hunting close to home, and having 

 a special permit were all relatively unimportant to this group. 



Economic Analysis of Cluster Groupings 



The SPSSx clustering procedure attaches a variable to each 

 observation which indicates to which cluster it belongs. The 

 sample sizes of the final cluster groupings were as follows: 

 Generalist-Enthusiast = 699 (27%), Meat Hunters = 923 (35.6%), 

 Generalist-Meat Hunters = 363 (14%) and Trophy Hunters = 606 

 (23.4%). It must be pointed out that the resulting cluster sizes 

 and types are highly dependent on the selection of variables used 

 in the clustering process. To regroup the hunters using 

 different variables or different data would no doubt change the 



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