RE: back 2 30 deer in 1 group?
I never remember seeing 100 deer a day although I'm not saying you didn't.I do remember seeing 30+ most years on the first day.I never remember one year that all I saw was small spikes.If you really saw 100 deer a day and one small spike,things definately needed to change.I suspect those 100 deer were actually the same groups of deer running past you all day long.It's mathematically impossible for the adult b/d ratio to be any worse than 1/3.
Just realize,as dd pointed out,if you're seeing 37 deer per day,you're way over the deer densities Alt is shooting for.Therefore,Alt's paln is actually a failure in this case.