RE: liberty or pretty boy watershed in MD?
I hunted both when I first moved to Maryland although I mainly concentrated on Liberty because of proximity to the house. There are a lot of deer in certain areas. There are a lot of hunters in certain areas that tend to keep deer moving but when the pressure becomes real heavy they'll move to private land until the guns start going off. The key is to find an out of the way place where maybe just a point of watershed land comes near the road and people tend to over look it. I killed some deer there and had a lot of fun. I've seen some really nice bucks come out of the watershed near farm land. About 5 years ago I was reminiscing at the end of the season and got a bug to go back to Liberty. The last day of the season I walked into one of my old haunts almost 1/2 mile in. I climbed the tree and watched 19 deer parade by. Not bad after 4 months of pressure to have that many come by the last day. Pretty Boy gets a lot of folks from PA down to hunt because it's close to them. After the first month you'll have Liberty to yourself in most areas. I found a great access to a spot NO one hunted when I befriended a guy that lived in one of the large housing developments backing up to the park. He was all the way back in the development and there was no park access. He let me park in his driveway and walk across his back yard. The nearest access point to where I hunted was probably 3/4 mile away. He was tired of deer eating his shrubbs and wanted them all dead.