Your hunting is only as good as your neighbors..... with baiting and liberal seasons the opportunity exists to decimate buck populations.
"liberal" season has nothing to do with it. Because there is a buck limit of 3.
The "problem" is all the great white hunters out there that smoke every 2 and 3 year old buck they see until they limit out.
Baiting could be an issue - and it should have never been legalized.