I have been seeing basically the same thing although I hunted a lottery hunt at the wildlife research center in Beltsville and saw 7 deer all bucks in one bachelor group this was on the 18th of dec. I hunted the eastern shore (fishingbay wma) on Friday dec. 31 and saw only three other vehicles parked on the roads in and didn’t run in to any other hunters. The only shots I heard all day where from goose hunters .There were five of use in our group and no deer were sited all day