Probably because of the half a dozen doe tag days......Deer numbers are definitely down in there but they’re not all dead. Hunted that region since the early ninety’s, back in the guaranteed buck tag plus a half dozen doe tags days…….. a lot has changed. We had a place there for 30 years, the deer hunting seemed pretty good up to the mid 2000s but it’s been on a downhill slide since then.
Exactly…… back then they pretty much begged us to shoot as many whitetail as we could. They were like fly on sh-t in the hayfields at dusk.Probably because of the half a dozen doe tag days......
We focus on trophy elk, mule deer, antelope and moose hunts and take B&C bucks most years.