Who is saying we have a declining deer population? has anyone gone out and counted the number first hand or is it an estimate based off of peoples responses to surveys? I will show you peanut fields that have 100 deer in them and the peanut fields are 20 acres. So if that is a declining pop. i am all for it declining some. we have numerous properties we hunt that may be only 120 acres and we consistently kill 12-20 deer a year off of these tracts. And have been doing so for 15 years. If you cant kill a nice deer or a bunch of deer in south carolina you need to look at the way you hunt and maybe change something. Get off your ass, get off the corn pile and hunt some deer.