It should not be a surprise if the numbers are down a little from last year numbers went way up during the great doe slaughter that started when they made the entire season doe season. Then they started slowly declining almost every year since. You increase legal doe harvest to virtually an unlimited number you get a few years of record deer harvest when for the first time more does than bucks were killed then after that you get gradually declining deer harvest numbers because there are less deer and less does to have deer. If you want less deer kill does if you want more deer quit killing does. Right now the state along with most people must want less deer. Doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out.