Woooooo a science degree! That doesn't tell me anything. I DO have a science degree in forestry and an associate degree in biology so I DO know what I am talking about. the numbers I pulled were off the PGC site. And they are nothing more than lies and ridiculous estimates. If they would get their heads out of their a$$es they would realize that they have screwed up the deer herd so bad that it may not ever recover. Plus the predation level has increased. If you go out in the snow you will see coyote tracks everywhere. And yes they are capable of killing a full grown deer if they hunt in 2 or more. And their toll on fawns I would guess is realitively high also.
And as for being a hunter, there may have been only a couple years that I haven't harvested a deer in over 45 years. And almost all of them have been buck. I hunted in the years where you could go out and see 25 - 50 deer a day on public land. But now, if you see 3 or more deer you had a great day.
Just don't sit in front of your computer and tell me I don't know what I am talking about. There are countless of real hunters out there that know the PGC and the DCNR are nothing but a group of illogical individuals with terrible statistical methodology that create the fraudulant number they have the gall to post on their site.