Very involved Question. To start I'm in Pa. I dont believe the Game commission has any idea how many deer we have.The landscape is much different from where you are .We have lots of thick timber. Cant really see very far. Most private land is posted.Cant hunt there.So you aint seing them deer. On public land if you spotted a deer like out in Nevada most likely there would be 12 hunters seeing the same deer and blasting at it. I often see 3 deer and 20 hunters in a day. Takes only a couple days of that and what deer are there then run to the posted no hunting areas. Simplist way I can say it. This year on the opening day I seen no deer and 37 hunters walking around . When I left I counted over 200 vehicles in a 5 mile drive in the parking lots of gamelands. Dont forget here in Pa we have a million hunters and the game commissin says we have 1.6 million deer last year. So you figure it out.