Given the choice between improving your skills or being able to hunt better land with a larger healthier deer herd I doubt many members here would not choose the land.......unless they already are on a sweet spot of their own.


I know I wouldn' t. I have experienced it both ways. I have been on subpar land most of my life and been forced to make the best of it.......and I have. I would call the number of deer taken by the men of my family off those hills pretty damn impressive considering what we have to work with. We don' t pretend it is something it is not and we usually don' t miss ....usually I have also been fortunate enough to hunt some sweet, lush fields and farms. The difference is almost laughable. I have taken some of the guys that let me hunt their land out to the state forest with me and more then one has told me that if they had to hunt like that they would quit. I have seen more deer and bucks in the very short amount of time I have spent hunting these lush grounds then I have in all my years of state land combined. More deer=More chances it' s that simple IMO.

When you see a deer on state land you better bag it........PERIOD. If you miss or let it walk you may as well go home. You will not have chance after chance and you will not see bigger and bigger deer by letting the first one walk. You have to take advantage of EVERY chance you get........because you never know how many hours, days or weeks will go by before your next one.............the deer just aren' t plentiful enough and/or the hunting pressure is overwhelmingly stacking the odds against you. On state land you have to compete with other hunters as much if not more then the deer. On a private hot spot you have to wait for a clean shot so you don' t accidentally wound another one with a passthrough [] or just take 2 at a time like that high KE thread suggests


CBM.........I really thought we were just throwing out stories and logic here.......not competing to see who was right or wrong. Just passing the winter months..........no harm intended bro.