I grew up on a tobacco and cattle farm in rural NC. I was never a deer hunter growing up.....but I can honestly tell you that from the time I was bron until the time I went to college.....I could count the number of deer I EVER saw on one hand.

Now.....I see them, daily....and averaged seeing 7, from stand, each sit, last year.

The whitetail deer population in NC has grown 450% since 1977.