Our land in S Alabama in 1994. Over 40 deer each evening on our green fields and average weight 60lbs. Today we see 0 to 5 on average with the average weight closing in on 100lbs. We spent many years shooting every doe with out spots and almost no bucks. Now we have good sized does for the south and several wall hangers in the last 4 years. In the beggining you could stand in the middle of a green field and look at the browse line around the edges and it was several feet of the ground. I think our mild climate prevented a massive die of and istead mother nature was offering a slow starvation route.