I'll preface this with some numbers from the IL firearm first season. Statewide totals were down what, 15K from last year. Only one county had the same amount of deer harvested (exactly the same) all other counties were down. The archery harvest (up to the firearm season) was down over 3K from this time last year. I know my deer sightings went down alot from years past. EHD took a toll on deer numbers in my area in 2007, yet the harvest totals were up last year over previous years?[&:] Is the "brown its down" on every doe mentality starting to affect the deer numbers? Fewer hunters = fewer kills? I'm not sure what the answer is? Is this all over the midwest or something thats been limited to IL this year? Your thoughts?