You know what - I'm trying to be politically correct with my responses - but - I'm not sure why.

The truth is that we/us employ the DEC. Many dozens of well trained biologists work extremely hard to meet in the middle the demands of hunters with those of outside interests - and do a really good job.Most of these guys hunt too, and understand what the average hunter wants.

If you are not seeing the deer you think you should be:

1. your used to seeing TOO MANY deer (like in your back yard)
or
2. then the population is down in your area and the DEC either wants it that way - or they are working to increase the herd.

If you cannot be happy with that - then you should bring up your concerns with you region manager.

FH