The TSF isn't as remote and secluded as it seems.

Talking about far more than the TSF, Kev. Besides, TSF is broken up into many smaller chunks over a very wide area, not just one big parcel. Drive across 362 from Ansonia and gaze of to the north and north east while up on the high parts of the road. One helluva vista off in those directions, for many, many miles. And there is no shortage of such vistas in them parts.

Hell, SGL 208 has 8,000 acres on it. How much of that gets trudged during firearms deer? Most of the guys I know that hunt there, never get more than a quarter or half mile from the road. You wouldn't have found great numbers of deer well back-in prior to HR, but there have always been some deer in the most remote corners. The higher concentrations of deer on that SGL have always been closer to the few food plots and ag lands.

Granted, there are lots of roads, farms and small villages scattered out across some of those areas you can see from Rt. 362, but most of it is remote steep, forested mountain land.

I can get up on the highest part of the ridge behind my camp and see clear over to the big chicken farm off in the direction of Whitesville, NY. Crow-wise, it's probably 12-15 miles. In other directions I can see across far more territory than that. Same deal and I've been through some of those areas, which are virtually peopleless and roadless, but for narrow, rutted goat trails. Few venture into them in firearms seasons, especially when the weather is bad and them goat trails are virtually impassable.