That's only part of the difference. And even back then, some were grumbling about not seeing enough deer, because other places had more deer at the time. Guess who they blamed then? The game commission is charged with managing wildlife and working to provide huntable numbers of game species.Nothing in there that I've ever seen, that says them must provide as many of a game species as each and every hunter demands.

If roughly 800,000 of us are still killing over 300,000 head of deer each year, I'd say that should more thanmeet the definition of"huntable numbers".

The real difference is that the PGC Board of Commissioners onceallowed deer numbers to grow far beyond what they should have been in many areas and more recent BOCs finally decided to do something about it 7 years ago.

Normal human nature to complain, if they once had lots of something (even if briefly), then someone "took it away" from them. For many it doesn't even matter why, they just want it back again. In my experience, this brief period of a great glut of deer, ran from about the mid 80s to the late 90s, in most areas. Fun for many while it lasted, but it should've never happened in the first place.