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About 5 per sq mile around me. Grew up in the central adirondacks, some big deer there but same deal as you, hunt a week and pull the short straw and you might never see one. We make up for it by having millions of acres of public land to hunt, but its different for sure.
I hear farmers say all the time about the high deer numbers. I can say we have pockets of deer as they are plains deer. Might go one place and have 15 psm the next might have 1-2. The farm I shoot all my big ones off has 25 deer on it plus or minus a couple. Every year it cranks out a 160". I think it has to do with mother nature and the carrying capacity of the land. Some habitat is better while others might have one element like food without cover.
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Absolutely will take a doe.
I live in a zone 4, limited to 1 doe and 1 buck.
Have not filled my buck tag this year, season ends Monday.
I finished up on last weekend. First time in 5 years I never had a shooter buck show up and get patterned. They just showed up 1 day and not come back 1 day the next week on camera. Tons of little bucks and 115-120” bucks. But I used my final deer tag on another old mature doe. I got 4 does with my bow in freezer for salami and summer sausage.
RANGER BOATS
I finished up on last weekend. First time in 5 years I never had a shooter buck show up and get patterned. They just showed up 1 day and not come back 1 day the next week on camera. Tons of little bucks and 115-120” bucks. But I used my final deer tag on another old mature doe. I got 4 does with my bow in freezer for salami and summer sausage.
RANGER BOATS
I usually shoot one in West Virginia because that's all the out of state gun hunters are allowed and let me tell you there are plenty of them there. In Ohio me and my boy or daughter try to shoot 2 and we eat every piece of meat we get. I only shot 2 deer last year and the wife has been cooking the meat and I told her to save some so we don't run out she said you should shoot more deer We had a rougher year in Ohio than we normally do I think the deer heard is down some but the ODNR will argue.