RE: scouting public property
Sometimes you don't have to go 'Deep"! The deer seem to pattern the hunter after a while. I look for the little patch of woods that no one goes into, that is over looked! My first deer I killed I could see my truck! One of the top 3 record book Bucks was killed by a hunter 10 yards of a dirt road, he was about 8 feet off the ground. Hunters would drive by and laugh at him, then he killed a MONSTER. I like to scout and look for the small "pothole" if you will that just might hold a buck to bed up in!