Mainehunter, I have a cottage on George's Pond outside of Franklin. You're dead on for your state. The Fish and Game does a great job. The only limiting factor for your herd is the fact that all they grow is blueberris and pine trees up there, which don't feed the deer through winter. And the damn coyotes.
Down here it's different, we have 30 deer per square mile, and enough food to keep them fed, in most cases. The problem is, that food is often peoples bushes, flowers, corn, ect. That food is often right next to a road, too. Our Fish and Game doesn't manage for the benefit of the deer, they manage for the purpose of keeping their jobs. Politics has more say than nature. People that get so worked up about this stuff are those who want it to go back to being managed by the biologists, like your state is. If that reduces the herd to 20 deer per square mile, let's the bucks grow past spikes and forkies,and keeps my truck from getting smashed up so often, even better! The only downfall is you may have to pass up a spike or two the first year, and the naysayers don't want to do that. That's the only reason some folks don't like it.