sproulman, I don't hunt in lakewood it about 45 minutes away from me. But in my area in the pine barrens we have had good years and some hard years on deer numbers. Coyotes are big on our hit list for decreasing the deer population. 2 or 3 years ago we had such reduced numbers of deer harvest. We almost had no deer come into our feeders at our club. Not many pictures. If you were out hunting and seen a deer you were lucky. Many people in the area says they are hearing a lot of coyotes around that werent around in past years. I even got a coyote on our camera to prove it to our club members. This year has been better as we would have 8 to 12 deer come into our feeders and our food plots.

I have heard that lakewood has some good size deer. Not in my area in the pine barrens, we don't have good nutrition but with our food plots we have seen an increase over the last two years in body weight. I feel we have gained about 15 to 20 lbs on our deer as a whole during this time. Get this we are hoping to harvest our first 100 lb field dressed deer this coming year. [&o] Sad I know. But we have done a lot with the little bit of ground we have.

Brian