The spot I hunt the most had 60 hunters signed in on opening day (a monday). There are 100 guys wandering around out there the week before season opens, hanging stands. Some guys still are dragging stands out there once season opens, even in mid-November.(setting them up at 4pm no less)

This is on 600 acres of woods at best.

Last season I set my stand up on what I figured would be 'escape routes' for the deer when they ran into the other hunters. Well, sure enough, opening evening a bunch of deer come past, some running, one stumbling about, nonepresentinga shot. A hunter 100 yards away hadshot a doe. It was a bad hit. He spent the entire next day looking for that doe on that same ridge that I was hunting. I'll give him credit for looking, but it entirely ruined the area I had hung my stand. [&o]

High pressure public land rocks!