Personally, I've seen more deer on my personal property in the last three years, but don't think there's more of them, just think that I see them more due to habitat improvements that I've performed over the last two years.
That's great, the same on my familys land. If you have the property and time to manage food plots or even a sanctuary or area that you can make thick and nasty and just stay out of. I believe you will see more deer. You don't need a ton of land to do this, we have 46 acres and have a sanctuary that we stay out of. We were able to down some big over grown trees and planted some spruce. Letting the spruce, briars and everything else grow nice and thick and nasty. The deer seem to love going in and out of there. We also were able to plant old logging roads with birds foot trifoil, clover and brasica. Since we started this the deer numbers and size of bucks have grown soo much.