It is true that Coyotes are eating their share of deer. I have seen many dead fawns with their bellies eaten out as soon as mama doe drops them. They also eat lots of roadkill. Hunters taking poor shots from Buck fever and shooting at one on the run or hitting them in the guts. Poor shooting from some guys that shoot at any deer just to try to get lucky and hit it. I also have seen guys kill 15 doe in one season because they can get the tags. Yep. good old fashion greed has taken way too many deer. This is what the game commission wanted. They got it. We also have spur of the moment disease that shows up out of no where and kills a lot of deer. Two years ago we had a bug fly all the way from Florida to Southwest Pa and land on the deer and it killed them. The woods were filled with the stench or rotting deer. The bottom line is we have very few deer in the big woods. We still have some in the suburbs only because the PAGC says you cant hunt them. Safety zones and such. The big money insurance companies are much happier now. Less deer/car collisions saves them lots of cash. I guess if I had an Insurance company I would bring in Predators, disease and bugs that can fly all the way from Florida without landing on one deer, raccoon, groundhog, skunk, fox Coyote or opossum or just rest and bite an animal for a drink of blood or what ever they eat. It's going to take a combined effort from all sportsman to bring back the deer. We also need help from the PAGC that we may or may not get. I do know that if Pa looses it's deer hunting trade, we sportsman will pick up the tab for lost revenue and taxes somewhere else.