It's tough to define.However,I remember years when 40+ deer were killed on less than 300 acres.One year in particular,I think it was 85' or 86' we had snow cover.You literally couldn't walk more than a couple hundred yardswithout seeing a blood trail or gut pile.The woods looked like a slaughter house.I remember,driving those same areas out in muzzleloader season that year and hardly even cutting a track.I honestly remeber thinking every deer had to have been killed but the deer always returned the next year when the crops started coming up.As a kid growing up,competition for a spot was fierce.Today,it's rare if I even see another hunter in the woods.I can honestly say,no way did hunters even slightly impact deer numbers in any of the multiple places on public land where I've hunted the past three years.I don't see hunters or boot prints.Unless pa hunters float above the ground like Pa mountain lions,our public lands in the northcentral part of the state are very under utilized.


Those deer never went to P & G property.