Here is my experience. I only hunt public land. Me and my buddies started killing as many does as we had tags for about 7 or 8 years ago. Since about 5 years ago the quality and quantity of really nice bucks has gone up. I am having my best year as far as sightings go, I have yet to sit without seeing deer. Usually if we take 25 trips 10 -15 we wouldn’t see any deer. In the last 3 years I have killed some great 130” + class Deer, and some 130”+ with one going 154”. Previous to our settling I. On does the average buck we would see was about 80-90”. We have been hu ting the same spot for 15-17 years