the reason for you not seeing any bucks in GMU 149 was the buck to doe ratio, which is way below what most would like it to be, there's a very small percentage of bucks that live long enough in this unit to reach maturity. You do see a lot of deer in this country but mainly due to the open terrain. mule deer numbers in the unit are healthy in general but if they had a late (rut) hunt open to anybody the majority of the mature deer would be killed.
I would love to be able to hunt the rut in a few units that are not open but I realize it would be devastating to the herd and I also want to hunt these deer in years to come.
my point is, we may not be able to hunt them during the rut but atleast we get a crack at them at other times.