Indiana's hunter population is approximately 300,000 , and they took a record number of deer last year. Twelve of our lower tier counties have been declared "reduction counties" because we don't take nearly enough antlerless deer down here . An "Earn a Buck" program has been proposed many times to help reduce the deer population , but repeatedly fails due to heavy resistancefrom the same trophy obsessed hunting clubs who got us stuck with the OBR for a 5 year trial because they want a booner behind every tree instead of simply hunting where the booners are . Indiana is #6 in the P&Y standings , so we already have lots of big deer , but we also suffer from having too many deer in general for the carrying capacity .

I have seen the same thing he has , more than half of the road killed deer I see are bucks , usually younger ones. The OBR has forced many of our hunters to be more selective and let the little dumb ones walk . Take a guess what many of them end up walking in front of ...