...The DNR has been working the last several years to reduce the deer herd size by increasing the number of antlerless deer permits, meaning does... The only surprise is that according to the DNR, it was only down 15 percent. Some in the field say it was down a lot more... roughly 615,000 hunters statewide harvested a total of roughly 329,000 deer ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/michigan-s-2014-deer-harvest-down-not-a-surprise