All of my friends hunt NE iowa- Fayette and Clayton counties. It is a consensus that there has been a significant decline in deer numbers this year. I had been keeping it tongue in cheek all bow season thinking that it was due to the late corn harvest, but shotgun season was a good measuring stick- definitely a drop in numbers. Don't know if it was last years hard winter, the terrible floods this summer, or putting the hammer on all the does, but it seems to have gone too far. i have never had so many unused doe tags as this year, and it isn't from a lack of trying.