Many things change over time - including hunting and the animals we hunt. When I started hunting in Fulton County in 1964, you could hunt all season and see only ahandfull of deer. I shot my first deer - a spike buck - in 1965. I shot my next deer -a doe - in 1969. In 1967 and 1968 there were 11 of us hunting three farms and we shot no buck deer. In 1969 the same group shot 2 buck deer. I saw and shot my second buck deer in 1972. By the mid 1970s the group had swelled to around 17 hunters and our take was typically around 8 buck deer. By the late 1980s we numbered from 20 - 24 hunters and nearly everyone had an opportunity at a buck deer through the late 1990s. The deer numbers are down somewhat as we have been concentrating on herd management (HR) on the 600 acres we control. We now have 16 hunters on 5 properties that we are managing as a club. I will admit that our sightings and taking of legal buck deer had dropped in the first three seasons of AR, but this year we had our best season ever with 13 of 16 hunters taking legal buck and only one hunter - my 86 year old father in law - that did not have a legal buck sighting. Admittedly we are hunting private land and we post and limit access to our members. But for us, it appears that the good old days is now.