The list is total bunk - Minnesota and Iowa anywhere near this list is bogus. Ha Ha. I shot 8 deer in MN within 4 days a few years ago and the place is still stocked to the gills. So that is bogus.

Iowa - never hunted there, but it can't go from one of the best to one of the worst in a few year.

List is total bogus and doesn't really even give any decent evidence. I'd qualify this list more as click-bait and to create controversy than a realistic list.

Wide Open Spaces is known in the marketing world of hunting and shooting to push out bogus articles with no proof.

The guy that runs it is 100% marketing guy: http://www.wideopenmediagroup.com/denis-odwyer/

Deer Hunting since 1999 (Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana Antelope)

Marketing Guy in Chicago but grew up in Indiana/ Ball State.. blah blah blah.