
Table 33 - Distribution of Kill Among Hunter Success Groups 
Percent of Total Harvest 
Ducks in bag Upper Mississippi Mark Twain ENTIRE AREA 
or more ducks 31.62 : 39.85 37-20 
3 or more ducks 55.22 57.08 56.48 
3 ducks 23.60 17.23 19.28 
2 or more ducks 78.70 78.00 78.22 
1 and 2 ducks 4h ,78 he .92 43.52 
2 ducks 23.48 20.92 21.74 
1 duck 21.30 22.00 21.78 
While these data obtain for the hunting lands along the 
Mississippi River under hunting conditions that exist here, they 
may not hold true in other parts of the country or under different 
conditions of hunting. Where extensive field shooting is done, 
an entirely different situation may exist. 
For hunting such as is found along the Mississippi River, it 
is extremely interesting to note that in the higher success groups 
(those hunters taking 3 or 4 birds per day) a total of 17.72% of 
the “hunters are found, and that this 17.72% of the hunters account 
for 56.48% of the total harvest. The lower success groups (those 
with 1 or 2 ducks per day) make up 40.62% of the total hunters 
checked, and accounted for only 43.52% of the total kill. 
Let us now examine the data in terms of possible harvest, had 
different bag limits been in effect. (See tables 36, 37, and 38 
on pages 54, 55, and 56.) 
In other words, with different bag limits (assuming hunting 
pressure and other conditions remained unchanged) the kill might 
be reduced as follows: 
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