Yes, it really does depend on the management. Uncle Nickey, I thought you were older. I remember seeing twenty deer the first day before 10:00. Fifty to sixty a day was more like it. Yes, in Maryland too. Herds of 15-20 going past.
So what will two more days matter? In Pa that is how they manage the herd. Tag numbers are a secondary "Management tool". Pa has always used the amount of hunting days to manage the deer herd. I saw in the regulation book that the amount of days doe was open in some areas was dropped by a week this year. I live in 5-C and there were thousands of tags left over this year. Doe is open an extra month down here. Just selling tags by the thousands does not mean anyone is buying them. It is the extra days that kill the doe off.