I totally understand where you guys are coming from. Heck, if put in either one of your situations I would do the same thing. I guess I' m just a lot more fortunate than some people to live in a place with big deer and have the opportunity to hunt them.

The places I hunt experience a lot of pressure from nearby hunters shooting everything that moves, poaches, road hunters, etc etc as well. The one thing we' ve tried to do more and more every year is set aside a portion of our hunting land that we DO NOT go into unless we are tracking a deer. Basically the back 30 acres of our 80 acre hunting grounds is left untouched as sort of a " refuge" for local deer to seek out during hunting season. We find more sign there every spring and lots of good sheds. It might not be much, but every little bit helps I guess.

As for the poachers throwing carcasses into your yard - that is just ridiculous. I don' t know about you guys, but I would stop at pretty much nothing in order to find out who did it and either see them punished by law, or otherwise.