Not sure there were more deer 40 years ago. In the 80's they would have over 1000 hunters on a hunt. Deer were moving everywhere. Then about the mid 90's clubs took off and the hunters numbers dwindled. They had the doe population in check in the mid 90's, and then when hunters dwindled, the doe population exploded again. Not that many people hunt the management area, like it used to be. Lack of hunters, deer don't move as much and people think the numbers have dwindled. The deer are pushed from the roads in the mornings, and they just go where there are no hunters. Used to, there would be hunters waiting on those pushed deer.