I can remember when you paid $5 a day to hunt the refuge and then you could see a hundred or more deer a day in Uwharrie.I have taken 2 or more a year from 1970 till 1998 then I just quit seeing deer there.Don' t know what happened the last 2 years I hunted it there wasn' t even any tracks in my favorite spots.My brothers and I hunted it in 1999and 2000 and only got 2 deer between us.
You won' t find trails there like you do in the mtns. unless you hunt near the river where there are laural thickets.Look for old rubs,beds,and where they are feeding on acorns in the fall.I think they are still deer there but they have cut so much timber there I think the deer stay in the cut outs.
The last time I was there they had shut the road off going to the top of the mtn above the damn,you might want to try that it has produced a lot of deer for me over the years but now it is a long walk.There are so many small tracks also and sometimes these smaller tracks pay off too.