My worst years were right after they changed it from two weeks of "doe days", to a doe a day. When was that, around 2000? Then the brilliant idea of 2 does a day. We went from Seeing 15-20 deer every weekend, and killing a lot good bucks, to 10-15 deer sightings a year. It stayed that way until about 3 years ago. I guess all the doe killers finally figured it out.