I don't know what data you're speaking of?? I hope they really do know a number. I do agree that we may have more deer, but we also have a ton more places for them to live and hide. Which seems to me what they are basing their numbers off of. When you have hunters with boots on the ground going off of cameras, sightings, and sign saying there are less deer, I tend to agree with them more than someone saying " well this area has always had tons of deer, and the habitat has done ?this? in the last several years, and there's this many hunters, so there must be this many deer." It just seems that's what is happening more and more often.