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"You're bound to have bucks that will escape the hunting pressure," Liddell said. "There's just no way youLinks of Londonre going to get all of those animals" in a four-day season. But that doesn't mean that lots of really old bucks are ambling in Ripley's woods "You hear stories of bucks 7 to 10 years old, but most of the trophies that come out are only 4 to 5 years old," he said. And Liddell said overall, the deer Links of London Bee Charm is about 0.5 years older than the statewide deer population. "It's not an old herd," he said. The average buck taken is 2.5 years old. But the hunting restrictions and topography of the area mean deer densities, about 30 per square mile pre-harvest, is high. Links of London Snowflake Charms kill about 500 deer -- or 20 percent of the estimated 2,400 whitetails there. Liddell said several factors -- including a wolf pack that roams the area -- explain why the population requires relatively little harvest to control. Also, deer-human conflicts, such as crop depredation, are fewer in the encampment than in the state at large. So intense efforts to restrict the herd's size aren't necessary. For these reasons and others, there's little chance hunting opportunities will be increased. Military officials, for example, can't forgo Links of London Big Apple Charm training days to allow more hunting, said Liddell, especially with wars still raging around the globe. The archery hunt also costs the DNR money, around $50,000 a year, or about $100 per harvested deer.