i just went throught he report again, to see how s.w. vt stacked up against the rest of the state, overall, there wer only 4 counties that had more bucks per square mile than bennington, and 4 above them in total deer killed, must be good hunting, or a lot of people down there. i asked my postman today id he has delivered one of the surveys yet, so far he hasn' t seen one come through; we wonder if there will be more sent to the southern part of the state than the rest, that' s where the people are crying the loudest for a qdm plan. depending upon how you veiw hunting, it won' t get any better, just go down hill. think of it this way,yes, those 1.5 could get bigger, but your odds of getting one under qdm will decrease, just ask anyone involved in qdm, the buck harvest always has to decrease from current levels. shoot more does? people are yelling right now that there aren' t enough deer around( not me, i seem to see quite a few), and the dept. wants to take more deer(doe) out of their backyards? someone' s head will roll if that happens. i do agree with you on one thing, though, i think that many would like to see the herds that we used to have, i get jealous looking at the backwall of my grandmothers house, i think there has to be close to 70 racks up there from my grandfather and uncles. but, today we don' t have the habitat, in part because of the excess deer 20, 30 years ago.