My place isn’t the same anymore

Tell them does are deer too.

are they on a management program or practicing "if it's brown it's down" ?

Yea know the feeling. The club that had our place would usually kill a 130 every year, maybe 140. Always a 5-8 yr old buck would be killed each year that was 130 max.

Last year before they left they killed 16 bucks on 300 acres. No telling what I’ll have in the next few years.

If it really is "your" place lay the law down to them, they can abide by your wishes or be gone at seasons end, if it belongs to someone else you need to either learn to deal with it or find somewhere else to hunt.

What happened is the bucks are not living long enough to mature and that is not likely going to change without landowner input and a guiding hand.

Has this problem many years ago and at seasons end I just informed them to make sure they took everything with them, they were shocked I was serious despite me making my wishes very clear upfront.