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In 2007 there were 28,000 deer vehicle accidents in ohio. For the last several years that has averaged 12-15,000. Since 2007 there has been a substantial increase of licensed drivers and vehicles on Ohio roads. I could look ot up but I believe there was about a 3%per year increase with about 4.7 million total in 2016.
The fact remains that the deer population today is less than roughly half of what it was before the DNR started the decimation program around 2007. Insurance companies are happy as a clam at high tide. With the average claim payout for a DVA of $4,100 that's a savings of roughly 57 million dollars PER YEAR in avoided payouts in ohio alone. Say. Has anyone insurance gone down since 2008???
It's pretty easy to see who wags the tail at the DNR and it's not hunters. Hunters were sold out over a decade ago to shore up the profits of insurance companies. Over the last 10 years it's not a stretch to say companies like nationwide and state farm have saved over half a billion dollars by getting the ODNR to convince hunters we have "too many deer".. In order to make up for the lost revinue at the ODNR after they skull fucked the population they raised the cost of licenses and tags to balance the books on the backs of hunters.
Proofs in the pudding and I screamed about it until I was blue in the face back then.
This part isn't about anyone here as I think we have the best group of informed hunters out there. But more in reference to hunters as a whole. Tonk was right that as a collective we're just a bunch of tools, or did he say a tool. Either way the implied intent was we're too stupid to even see the big picture. Shake a bucket of grain and we'll load right up on that trailer bound for the slaughterhouse. But hey, now we can use these cool straight walled rifles right, yippie, all aboard.
The fact remains that the deer population today is less than roughly half of what it was before the DNR started the decimation program around 2007. Insurance companies are happy as a clam at high tide. With the average claim payout for a DVA of $4,100 that's a savings of roughly 57 million dollars PER YEAR in avoided payouts in ohio alone. Say. Has anyone insurance gone down since 2008???
It's pretty easy to see who wags the tail at the DNR and it's not hunters. Hunters were sold out over a decade ago to shore up the profits of insurance companies. Over the last 10 years it's not a stretch to say companies like nationwide and state farm have saved over half a billion dollars by getting the ODNR to convince hunters we have "too many deer".. In order to make up for the lost revinue at the ODNR after they skull fucked the population they raised the cost of licenses and tags to balance the books on the backs of hunters.
Proofs in the pudding and I screamed about it until I was blue in the face back then.
This part isn't about anyone here as I think we have the best group of informed hunters out there. But more in reference to hunters as a whole. Tonk was right that as a collective we're just a bunch of tools, or did he say a tool. Either way the implied intent was we're too stupid to even see the big picture. Shake a bucket of grain and we'll load right up on that trailer bound for the slaughterhouse. But hey, now we can use these cool straight walled rifles right, yippie, all aboard.
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