I understand your points and they are indeed valid to a degree. I guess my only thing is that I think deer in lower pressure areas are more likely to be active more of the day. Whereas on high pressure land, they only seem to move right at dusk or dawn presenting you with much less opportunity.

And on the deal with deer becoming accoustomed to human scent making them more tolerable to it, I think it doesn't matter in a hunting situationbecause even though they are used to humans, they still wont come within the 30 yard range we need to harvest them in. I can see that if there was no hunting allowed such as in a county park, the deer will discount us as any kind of threat.However if there is hunting allowed, they will associate us with danger and keep away regardless of how much human activity there is in the woods.

Keep in mind this is the feel I get from hunting high -vs- moderate pressure lands. I hunted my first 2 years on high pressure and couldn'tarrow anything 'cause the deer are always on high alert coupled of course with my inexperience. Like I said, they come in with their eyes in the trees and nose all over the place. With this recent and firstdeer that I got on moderate pressure land, I drew back on him, he looked dead at me in the tree for 5 full seconds then turned broadside, walked a few steps then stopped again to look at me. That's when I hit the release. Nowin all my experiences with high pressure land deer, as soon as they even see you in the tree, it's over.This doesn't mean that it's absolutely right but by the example I gave,it to me says thatless pressure means easier kill?