The Gauntlet Effect

In some circumstances a duck flies along a row of hunters, each firing at it in turn. In such a situation, our model will only estimate the number of woundings per bagged bird, not the number of birds actually wounded. This is because the same bird may be wounded multiple times before eventually being bagged. Similarly, when large groups of hunters surround a wetland, they may keep the ducks circling the swamp and wound a single duck more than once during a morning or evening's shooting.

I don't regard the difference between "woundings" and "number of wounded" as terribly significant. Its a little like discussing whether 100 women have been raped or only 50 women but twice each.

We have no idea how to quantify the effects of these situations, but we do know that X-Ray studies show that plenty of wounded birds are left in the wetlands -- gauntlet or no gauntlet.

Hunters have never provided any data on this effect, merely claiming that it massively effects wounding rates. With adequate data one could correct my wounding estimates to allow for such phenomena.

Without adequate data we can only trade annecdotes. I have a few here.