ORIGINAL: livbucks
Sproul, you are wrong in my case. I hunted public land and saw exactly one hunter outside of our party the entire trip.
This buck was actually not pushed. He and another smaller buck were running a late doe all around the valley. We saw a total of 5 bucks on the trip in that valley. I passed on a 1.5 year old 7 point that was sniffing for does at first light opening day. My brother finally got a shot at the pictured buck on second day.
We also saw a group of 3 does and 4 fawns and one half spike.
only what i see, yes, areas without pressure, you are right.
areas i hunt get a lot of pressure, my comments are ONLY IN AREAS ON PUBLICLAND IN WMU 2G THAT I AM FAMILIAR WITH OVER 47 YEARS AT IT.