Weather. hunters ???
I believe a little of everything playing a HUGE factor on the 2009 deer season .
I also hunted Northern and Southern zones in 09 .
I hunted just abought evry day some morning , some evening and some both .
I only hunt Southern tier opening ( 3 days ). But myself and 6 other hunters had unusualy bad luck .
We took 2 bucks and 1 doe between 7 guys .
We did miss 2 bucks , but taken into consideration the very few doe,s we seen it was not a very good season .
Now in the Northern section and only speeking for myself .
I managed to take a decent buck .
Not a huge one but he was decent .
In all my daily hunts there were a substansual drop in deer numbers in 2009 from the previous hunting seasons .
Not sure if it was the weather, or lack of hunters or a VERY FRIGGED 2008 winter the deer numbers were way down ..