Guess I'll vent a little here myself. This was by far the worst deer season I've ever experienced in 20yrs of deer hunting. I shot the only buck I saw in the northern tier season starting on 9/27. In fact I never even saw a deer in the N.T. all through archery, muzzleloader, and not until the 2nd wk of regular rifle season. For southern tier I saw 4 bucks during archery, and a few doe. I only saw 5 deer during the S.T. regular shotgun season all doe, and no shots.
The weather was crap most of the season, and it ended with me being sick on the couch all last wknd, so I couldn't get out for late archery or muzzleloader.
I was lucky to get the deer I did, and most hunters I've spoke too all have mutual stories of lack of deer, and sightings. But I'm guessing the DEC will have another record harvest printed in the papers this winter. Right now I'm just hoping they change some season dates around to give us more archery time in the woods, especially N.T.