I'm not a QDMer per say. They don't receive money from me. I do take what they say as, make the best decisions you can for YOUR PROPERTY. I think they were once more on the side of trophy management, but not so much anymore.
As for the state, I see their two doe a day limit as a great decision, it just didn't work out like they intended. I may be "living in a fairy tail" but I think their intent was I let us hunters make our own decisions. The law says you CAN harvest 2 does a day, NOT you HAVE TO harvest two a day. What they didn't realize is, a lot of people like to hear their gun go boom, and will follow the biologists word saying y'all have plenty of deer, shoot away! When that biologists has no more idea how many deer that place has than mr. Obama himself.
To me, you don't have to do expensive camera surveys, or hire a biologist. All it takes is a few people that know how to recognize a browse line walking pine thickets, riding roads looking at sign after season, and watching weights on deer and keeping up with the amount of deer they see during season. That may not be as accurate as some biologists coming in doing month or two long study, but it works for me, and costs very little. People make this stuff harder than it actually is I think. If your seeing 20-30 deer on fields, and browse lines on things such as privet, or something you know is less desirable, along with chewed bark on trees in extreme cases, then yes, it's time to kill a few. Just because your 1 acre plots are mowed down doesn't indicate overpopulation. We plant one of their most desirable foods, they're going to eat them to the ground over time.