Ryan,

Correct me if I am wrong, but what you are asking is..... Would you hunt a lower deer percentage area to avoid other hunters?

Personally I always try to find the areas that other hunters don't hunt or don't know how to hunt as long as I findthe kind of deer I am after.... using the area. Now that "kind" could be as simple as one doe family that is using the area to travel through that will eventually server as great baitduring the rutor just that one buck that I want to hunt is passing through this area. I never care how many deer are using my area as long as "THE" deer I want to see is using it. Its nice to not have to hunt an area that others are going to screw up for you either.

On the other hand for me it would be a waste of time to hunt an area, regardless of having NO hunters around to hunt it if you don't have at least somedeer using it. I don't go out to hunt to just sit alone, I can do that in many places of this country, I expect to see the animals I have scouted and set up on.