Second day was not a washout from weather, I hunted with my grandson in shirt sleeves! There is no way that weather affected the general gun season.

EHD is becoming more of a problem, and IDNR has been slow to react to the losses. To say the local herds will recover quickly......depends on how hard a local was hit. Some male deer will disperse into a given area but does do not move the spend their lives in a family group, most on less than 300 acres.

Increased coyotes, good excuse but, studies show deer hair in the scat, now was the fawn alive or dead from something else when it was found by coyote! All we are certain is coyotes will eat deer.

Loss of habitat? What happened to the deer that were there? They had to go somewhere.

Bundle license, now that is a solid reason for fewer deer. Guy buys it so he can buck hunt all seasons, normally kills 2 deer but killed 3 becausse he had a tag in his pocket. Is it just me or do people not see that we have a DNR that has taught over the years that whitetails are pests and we need to just fill all tags available?

Deer hunting is the cash cow for IDNR, they aint going to let up and most hunters are there for the thrill of killing something. Take a couple of generations for the "thrill of the kill" to change.