In the southern tier I hunt4A in montgomery county, Mostly on state land.I agree the last two years the deer numbers are way down. In addition I would guess that maybe 25-40% of the deer are shot in the bow season. Its certainly my best season.

At firstI was agianst the low deer numbers. In years past I would see multiple deer most days I hunted. Last year I hunted hard for 7 straight days to fill 2 gun season tags. This year I filled the two gun seasontags on friday for 6 days of very hard hunting.

This year was complicated by the warm weather and lots of hunters. Maybe itsbecause I am a little older (my 30th season this year) but I am alot happier when I judge my hunting success by the experience rather than the number of deer seen or taken. I still love hunting the big country up in hamilton county even though you can go years between shots on legal deer. As long as I can still hunt I am going to be happy about it.

Now If we could get some snow for the season over in Mass.