40-45/SQ MILE, WOW. we are est at 25/sq mile around here and thats really too much.
I've heard of areas with 75/sq mile. At that rate there is no regeneration of any trees.

When I leased this tract 26 years ago there was about 10 or 15 deer psm. Landowner changes, increased habitat manipulation, timber harvest resulting in clearcuts, storm damage to hardwood bottoms allowing sunlight to the forest floor, and a general lack of interest in doe killin' has got us to where we are today across a large area.

We are enjoying some great deer hunting and see a lot of deer, but numbers management has got to start.

Landowner/farmer has high fenced (10 feet) the fields on one side of my place. He utilizes double electric tape fence on all the other nearby fields. They grow commercial produce...100s of acres of bell peppers, squash, egg plants, and watermelons mostly. The farmer's family likes to deer hunt too and they don't shoot enough does either. I think they killed less than 20 on their surrounding 1500 +/- acres last fall.

My immediate neighbor to the south is a surgeon. He don't hunt much and only killed 4 does on his 700 acres.

I killed one doe last season....lol.

I've gotta do better this fall.

They are coming around.

Thanks for the pictures guys, love seeing then turkey poults.

… poor deer can’t get any privacy whatsoever out there in the woods these days lol

I would bet that the lack of doe shooting is a very wide spread issue.
I let a guy hunt my small plot (26 acres). First thing I asked when he asked for permission is do you shoot does?
He said he did.
Since then he has shot 4 bucks. One was a button buck so I guess you could say he was willing to shoot a doe that year.
Around here its small acreages. I'd bet most are under 40 acres.
Only one of my 8 neighbors has deer hunted on his property.
So its a hard situation to fix, not enough hunters, not enough land open to hunting and very tight bag limits.
At best between all the different seasons I suspect one could shoot maybe 4-6 deer at best.

Your fortunate in at least you can seriously wack the does if your inclined to do so.

What a shame.

Roadkill?

Affirmative Ghost Ryder.

He was an older buck, too.

Hate it when one like that gets eliminated in car vs deer.