There's sections of 2G that have very few deer and even some areas devoid of deer.
Some say habitat,some say anterless kills,and some feel once the deer numbers were brought down so low the predators had more of an impact.I kinda liked the predator theory but then I thought about public land in the SE and SC where deer numbers are also very low yet predators and or bad winters are few and far between.
So for now I'll go with the anterless kills.