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Me and my dad go up to Onida county Wisconsin and we have a deer camp with a bunch of friends. We don't own any land up there so we go one the hundreds of acres that are public land. So my question is..... Do you hunt on public land? do you have any susses? How do you choose where to go? Thanks for reading.
I hunt both public and private. The key to public is first deciding which public land to hunt. Contact the county DNRO/warden for help/deer numbers and get them to send you a topo map of this land. Secondly, study the map and look at the terrain and surrounding properties then go out there and scout it with the map in hand. Make notes on the map of trails, draws and any deer sign. Food sources and watering holes/creeks. The thing about public land hunters...for the most part...is that they usually don't venture very far back into the woods. What I have found is that most of them will only go 500 yards in to 1/4 mile in. You want a nice deer where theres hardly any pressure, go deep into the woods. I kill 3 to 5 deer a year on public land...get to know the land...you get to see the deer.
