We can agree on that. Better on average but fewer overall.

We'd probably agree that there are probably areas that are "beat" in every WMU as well.

Having spent my early hunting years almost solely in 2F in the ANF, my perspective is that there have always been areas that were "beat" at least dating back to my start in 1969.

I only know a couple of guys who really hunt2A and they hunt southwest Greene but I gotta tell you that they absolutely rave about it. They have a small chunk of private ground next to a SGL and they wind up on the SGL most of the time because that's where they've been getting the deer. They have taken some darn fine bucks 125-140ish in recent seasons.

There's no doubt that in some areas you gotta move or change strategy but there are some great bucks out there and the numbers RSB took the time to calculate sure seem to support that things are improving in quality if not quantity.