Steve, I am not familiar with NYS. Where is that. I guess it wasn't like that then all over the state when I started hunting then. I hunted in the southwest portion of the state in Greene, Fayette and Somerset counties. When hunting in Greene county the first Saturday of the season I remember I was sitting in a valley of State Game Lands and had so many deer run, the best estimate that I can give as at least 40 deer total from different groups ran in.
In your previous post you asked out of state hunters what their deer herd looked like. I am from New York state (NYS) and I can honestly say that I have never seen deer in such numbers in the more rural parts of the state. The same holds true for many of the more rural parts of the Northeast US. Many hunters see very few in an entire season, nevermind 30 or more in one day. You should consider yourself lucky that you have such a spot to hunt. Many people do not. In numerous areas of my home state they don't even issue doe permits. So with antler restrictions a person hunting an area like this could not shoot a doe and needed to wait for a buck of at least 6 or 8 points before he could take a shot. I would think it would be more wise for this person to stay in bed than to bother to go out and waste his time hunting.