ORIGINAL: MichiganArcher
I've hunted 20 years in the northern lower and never came close to the same experience. It can be done but not with regularity.
Really? Even before TB? I grew up hunting Alcona County and I had many days of seeing 40+ deer in a single sit. Especially in December and without bait. I know things are different now but it was WAY overpopulated within the last 20 years. Even very marginal habitat was holding plenty of deer.