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Absolutely. It's not the corn. It's simply ridiculous to allow everyone to kill a doe a day all season long. I know that no one will actually kill that many but it is still allowing an absolute slaughter of does. Out of state hunters flock to places like Illinois hoping to kill one monster buck. They flock to Alabama packing seven 150qt igloo coolers or a deep freezer to haul the mega meat harvest back. If you have a big enough track of land you can control your deer numbers by exercising a little more restraint. But for people hunting smaller parcels all it takes is one neighbor fully on the "If it's brown it's down" train and you are going to see a drop in deer numbers eventually. Most of Alabama doesn't have the agriculture anymore to sustain deer numbers in the face of this kind of slaughter. Also most of the acorn producing trees have been mowed down and replaced by hybrid pine trees. Pine plantations don't have much nutritional value for deer. Deer numbers are definitely down in my neck of the woods.