honey hole

So i went scouting my honey hole last nite. I tell you something has happened. Last year there where 150 deer in the valley feeding in the fields and then coming back through the property that i have access to on the hillside. and in the middle of the year last year the deer vanished. its like someone just picked up the deer and moved them. I talked to an oldtimer last night (one of the land owners) and he says he cann't explain it either. he said his grand kids aren't even going to hunt on his property this year. first time in 75 years he says that no one will be hunting his family ranch. No deer around. I did manage to find 1 or 2 does around the fields but nothing on the hills and not a deer on the tender greens from where the fire burned half the mountian down last year. all in all i managed to see 2 bucks before dark with a doe and 2 fawns. Both bucks small 2 points. Even on the way to the honey hole there is a place that I call the Zoo that packs the bucks in this time of year and it is a baren waste land. Looks like i will be hunting somewhere else this year..