RE: bradford county, pa.
I can't speak for the entire county but what I saw was very encouraging.
I also "did not" take a deer. However, I passed on several legal bucks in bow season. I hunted nearly every day of the archery season and saw deer every time I was out except on one day.
My immediate neighbors took a good number ofdoes but doe numbers certainly weren't hurt.
There were some dandy bucks taken within a 1-mile radius. Some were ones I had photographed over summer in my yard.
Local papers had more "good" buck pictures than I can recall ever seeing in past years.
I'm in S.E. Bradford, but I visit with friends who work at Columbia Crossroads (Judson's Feed Mill) in the N.W. area. They expressed having one of the best seasons ever.
This is all anecdotal but it's all I have to go on.