Its not all that difficult to understand where the deer went. We killed them.
Tags sold in 2009 - 625,000, success rate 42%, Tags sold in 2017 - 429,000, success rate 43%
Deer killed 2001 - 2005 - 1.024 million, average per year 205,000
Deer killed 2006 - 2010 - 1.223 million, average per year 245,000
Deer killed 2011- 2015 - .991 million, average per year 198,000
Deer killed in 2016,2017 368,000, average per year 184,000
We killed the deer heard at the bequest of the ODNR in the 5 years from 2006 - 2010, the math is pretty simple.