Maybe you need to come up and hunt the Adirondacks with me for a little dose of reality. On average, I hunt 45-50 days each hunting season which includes bow, black powder and rifle. I've been keeping a hunting journal for several years now and a disturbing trend is painfully obvious. I used to see between 60-80 deer during the entire season. Granted,some of those sightings were of the same deer but on different days. This averages out to a little over 1 deer sighted per day of hunting. The last 3 or 4 years I have been seeing less than half of the deer I used to see! This past season, I went a staggering 13 days straight without seeing so much as a flag and saw less than a dozen deer for the whole season!! Suggesting that I need to hunt harder just doesn't hold water. This was a reaccuring theme with all the hunters in this area. The deer numbers are not even close to what they used to be. Obviously the deer population is a lot lower in the Adirondacks than in the Southern Zone, but this rediculous. Something has got to change.

Mr. .45-70