I live in the interior of British Columbia Canada. I couldn't tell you how many deer we have in our province either.To tell you the truth it all depends on the person asked. I do know this much though, the Conservation Officers and Wildlife Biologists of this Province have done a remarkable job in establishing a very high Buck to Doe ratio thruoghout most of the Province in recent years.For years we always had a general doe season,but what I couldn't figure out was why they had one?I could understand it if you had 1.5 million deer ina state the size of Phli, but at the time B.C. had only a population of about 300,000 in the entire Province.The Provincial Gov finally got rid of the general doe season and made it LEH. They also introduced a 4 point our better season in to give the younger deer a chance to get big.Now, 12 years later, we are starting to see big results from this program. It is only my guess but probably close to 30 bucks/100 does.The chances of a 175 class to 200 class deer are more heavilly favored now than 10 years ago. Just bought the big buck mag and an American shot a Buck that ended up grossing 242 inches.I know of six more bucks in the 200-210 class that were taken around the Province.This year I shot one buck that grossed 190 typical my brother shot a buck in the185 class and another in the high 160's.My friend filmed 3 bucks during the season all said to be in the high 190 to 200 class range. We have often been over looked as a Province that produces Big Bucks " The genetics of the the Big Bucks are east of the Rockies " we here this all the time.And maybe for the most part this is true but the people in this Province have never really score their monster racks either. Some get mounted but most end up in Cabins and Garages. Never to be talked about again until somebody asks. It will be only a matter of time befor word gets around about the Deer hunting we have in B.C.