I hunt public land and last year I got lucky as hell and took a 13pter out of there.

Unfortunately about 6 people saw me loading him onto the back of my car (yes, I put a buck on the back of a cavalier, it's all I got until I can afford a truck). That entire season I saw 3 trucks total on the only access road to that piece of public land.

This past season I saw 8 hunters within 100 yards of my spot on opening day and another 10 more the next day and the following Saturday (when I got my doe).

3 separate times while I was by my car either eating lunch or heading home for the day, different guys asked me if I was the guy who got the big buck last year. Apparently not a lot of people with green 2-door cars hunt deer in this area All 3 times they wanted to know where in the woods I hunted and 1 guy even tried to follow me into the woods until I went a long ways through some thick brush and circled back to my spot.

Since it is public land, I obviously can't do a damn thing about it except for wait until someday I can buy my own land and then worry about keeping people off my own land.

I'm sure there are other factors at play beside my buck last year, but it drives me nuts when I get up 4 hours before sun-up, get out to the woods sit as still as I can, try to be scent-free to hopefully get a chance to see a deer and then some idiot comes tramping through the woods 100 feet from me hollaring to his buddy who is 50 yards away.