I hunted 102 in 2018. One rancher said he had found dead deer in deep snow the previous winter.
In comparison to previous years, deer were hard to locate, even after a blizzard and fresh snow. So you don't find deer, but there should have been fresh tracks. Even in known honey holes, there were no tracks.
Deer might be hard to locate for the next year or two.
Whitetails seemed to have done a little better than the mule deer.
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