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Like to crunch deer numbers? Check out this database.

Last year, hunters in Bedford County reported killing 8,215 whitetails.

Amazingly, in 1961 -- just 46 years ago -- the recorded kill in the county was 0. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

The next year hunters in Bedford killed only 30 whitetails. I've had single hunts in nearby Botetourt County where I've seen twice as many deer.

I'm fascinated by that kind of data, which the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has posted on its Internet site. We recently obtained the database and have posted it in searchable form HERE on our Web site.

No matter how you crunch the numbers, it's clear that the glory days of deer hunting in Virginia are now.

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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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