It's different here than further south and east for sure. Then too.....you get too far into the "big woods" and the deer don't have the groceries that we have here.....AND the wolf population gets bigger. Pockets of good deer populations exist. Just to the west of me the cover gets less (same area) ......I doubt they have the deer numbers I do. We have a lottery here.....and if the winter is good.....we will have allot of deer here next year. Spotty pockets of deer numbers in this area.
We've never had a 5 deer season here....that I am aware of. Never even a two deer season.