Hello, this my first post.
I hunt in the central forest area. Where clark, eau claire, and chippewa counties meet. I didn't see much for deer or sign this year. I hunt a lot in public county forests and some private property. On the county property, I only saw 2 deer total between bow and gun hunting. On the private land I did see many more....but not a lot. Some people that hunt really close to me, saw many deer. They did not see many bucks though. There were a couple really nice bucks shot by drivers near my treestand during gun hunting. Of course, I was not there. I didn't have a lot of deer on my trail cams either. We saw a lot more deer last year. It was a different year....I think with the corn fields being full of corn, it made it tough for the deer to leave the fields. Also, with the huge amount of does out there, it seemed like the rut was less intense too...it was a tough year...1 weekend left to bow hunt.