jack:

Understand where I'm coming from by knowing that the lands I hunt hold ZERO bedding areas.......and ZERO "ag crop fields". I'm huning small parcels of land in a high deer density area.

So....I get to see the deer that venture THROUGH the land I hunt.....or travel TO said land when the mast crops are producing. I see the same deer over and over again, all season.

Are there deer that come into these areas I've never seen? It just hasn't happened. When it does....I'll post up the sighting. What's "out there" in the lands I have no access to......I couldn't venture to guesstimate. Don't have a clue.

I'm in my woods +/- 50 sits per season.....and my trailcam is out there, pre-season, for a little over a month. When I speak of high deer density areas.....I'm talking >100 deer/sq. mi.....and likely more like 150/sq. mi. .

It's only my theory.....but I think the mature bucks don't HAVE to travel very far in this circumstance. They have EVERYTHING they need......in areas they can't be legally hunted. Do they (mature bucks) sometimes frequent the land I DO have access to? Certainly. I know AT LEAST three have. I haven't seen one of them, from stand, but I have photos of him.

To better aid in explaing this.....I saw +/- 17 different racked bucks in the summer and fall of the '06 season. TWO of these deer were 3.5 yrs or older. I saw exactlySEVEN different racked bucks in the summer/fall of the '07 season....and only FOUR during the actual huntingseason.....(withonly one of them being older than 1.5yrs).

Like I said.....my theory is....they don't NEED to travel into the places I can hunt them. What lurks in the areas I can't hunt them..........I have no clue.