I hunt in Wayne Nat Forest the south area. I use a .444 Marlin. The area I hunt used to have at least 100 hunters in there on opening day. Same with the areas acrossed the roads. Over the last 15 years there are less and less hunters. The last two years i have been the only hunter in that area. I used to hear shooting every minute but now only hear a few shots an hour. With less gun hunters to keep the deer up and moving and and more bow hunters in the woods prior to general gun I see fewer deer and harvest fewer. We stay up near Jackson where we used to see thousands of deer hunters now we way see fewer. More guys are Bowhunting closer to their homes and filling their tags there. We used to have 30-40 guys from NW ohio who would come down. Last 5 year we have had 5/6.
