Here's what I predicted would happen and what we see occurring with the trend line in a lot of counties…..I’ll use Montgomery doe harvest numbers as one example to represent them….You can see that over the last five years we’ve trended upward in doe harvest and now we’re coming back down……

Montgomery…….1421…….1486……1706……2122…..1655

That creates a one of these peaks on the doe harvest trend line…..



Which looks just like the same kind of peaks and trends we had back during the two per day doe killing……And what we know about that situation looking back on it is that if doe killing goes up and there isnt an increase in population growth to support that…..then you end up with less deer on the backside of it……and that’s where we find ourselves in my area……



I think some of the other counties that are seeing big five year highs this year in the upper right quadrant may just be a little behind on the down turn....... I think counties like Covington Co in south Alabama may be as well…..Here is its doe trend line……Either their population has grown a bunch or they’re about to see a big down turn when folks get done killing them off…….although like I said, it is possible that some areas are seeing population increases.....

Covington……1392…….1634……..1730…….2219……2162