In reading through this I can see I am pretty lucky to live where I live. I hunted four days in SD and never saw another hunter. I heard a few shots way off in the distance. I have access to about 6000 acres of private land. There are only 750,000 people in the State where I hunt. Many of you live near cities with many times that number of people. I don' t understand crowded woods and disputes over a downed deer. I can' Imagine a season without many, many oppertunities to take a buck and a doe is a given. Sometimes I don' t appreciate the remotness of our states up here, ND-SD. Even at that, I seldom go out the first weekend. If there ever is going to be any number of hunters competing for deer it would only be the first two days. Where I live Road hunters are a far worse problem than drive hunters. These are people who don' t even try to get permission to hunt. They just drive the back roads and try and nail one and get it loaded and get out before they are detected. While I consider myself an ethical hunter I believe that any tool for legally taking your deer is ok. Some people make drives, some tree stand hunt and others spot and stalk. Some of us do all of these methods at times. Anyway, I wish you all the best hunting and have a good off season. YEA RIGHT!!! Good Off Season???