Steve863...I am just mstating my opinions here. QDM is something that is practiced by a lot of people acrosss the country and the benefits are obvious. You can manage a herd to have deer numbers and quality deer. If you say you go days without even seeing a deer then I would say that NY DEC isn't doing their job, unless their job is to get rid of whitetails in NYS. I am fortunate to live in an area that has a pretty decent population of deer, although it has noticeably dropped over the last 5-7 years. In MY OPINION, allowing rifles, no antler restirctions, 2 bucks per season (bow and gun), and lots of doe tags handed out and being able to sign them over to your buddy, is not a program for success...