Slippery, sounds like you have found a rare spot in Salem. I live and hunt in Salem County, and have to tell you, it' s worse now than I have seen it in over 25 years. Actually, the deer density is more like 15 deer per square mile, 20 in some areas, 10 or 12 in others. I won' t ask you where you are because if hunting is as good as you say, you shouldn' t be broadcasting it. Competition for land is intense, even more so if you have that many deer. The long gun seasons and unlimited tags have really decimated the herds in much of Salem and Gloucester counties. I hope the state ends that soon. All you have to do is look at the harvest numbers from last season, and each previous season to see where the most deer are: Hunterdon, Sussex, Warren and Morris counties. Burlington makes a decent showing and Atlantic County shows up some years too.

I agree that the state has done a good job of buying land in recent years, but it is still VERY crowded. Some of the state land isn' t too bad during bow season, but come gun season, every piece has the tar driven out of it. I have found over the past ten years that as for private land, if the landowners don' t already hunt it, usually more than one club or group of hunters put in bids to lease it. Prices now are up near 35 dollars an acre for a decent property. We need to return to a season structured like we had in the mid to late 1980' s, that would bring the deer back.