Please do....That was pretty entertaining series of posts!

i know how that feels except our neighbor comes onto our land,hangs stands, puts his horses on our land and cuts our brand new fence along every strand between every post!i HATE that guy!

Couldn't this be asked of many of your threads? Is this a fair question?

Pressure is certainly a “relative” term, and I don’t know if it can be completely quantified. I do think some people who consider their hunting lands pressured, really have never seen how bad the hunting pressure can be. While yes it can be measured to an extent by the hunter/huntable acreage, I think there are many other intangible and non-specific pressures that come into play. Quad riders, spotlighting, firewood cutting, people walking dogs(or just letting them roam) etc all have an impact but aren’t hunter specific. Then account other species being hunted as well. I believe TJF gets his spots POUNDED by bird hunters. Say hypothetically he’s the only deer hunter there….you’d think it was heaven with no pressure. But then factor in say 6 bird hunters, 3 dogs covering every sq foot looking for pheasant. The pressure factor skyrockets.

Then factor in individual hunters/styles. A sneaky, route conscious, scent conscious, stand hunter will have less an impact than a bumbling fool strolling thru bedding areas daily.

Despite being in PA, and my hunting areas getting hammered, I do feel I don’t have it THAT bad compared to other people I know in this state/area. It can be hit and miss. I’ve gone out in gun season and had 13 guys on less than 100 acres. And maybe 65 of that wooded. Other times I’ve gone out and seen maybe 4, and 3 of them wouldn’t be more than 50 yds from the road. I was rather surprised at the amount of pressure during our late season. I normally am tagged out by then, but this year I was out a good bit. EVERY day I was out, mobs of guys were driving massive areas. Most of it posted & they would still scoot right thru. I was amazed.

Great post Rybo! You summed up a lot of what I was going to say.

The only thing I will add is that to answer the original question I believe that the deer in some of the places I hunt are pressured before the opener. There are a lot of guys that go in and build or hang stands, take shotguns into the woods to blast off some rounds, ride motorcycles and quads, etc. All activities that ramp up as the season gets closer. This absolutely puts pressure on the deer and is why some will be nocturnal by the end of July.

My area isn't pressured much at all during the early season being I don't do any hunting at all in the big part of my woods close to the bedding areas. If I have a doe tag available where I hunt I'll do some early hunting on the field edges and hopefully arrow myself a doe there. Other then that I won't be putting hardly any hunting pressure into the main part of the woods until about the 2nd week of October when I go tramping around looking for some rut activity and placing some stands for the upcoming rut. When the rut does heat up I'll only sit in a particular stand maybe 4 sits in a row if i feel real confident otherwise I'll leave the stand alone and head to another spot and let the other cool down some. During the gun season the whole section i hunt in gets pounded very hard by the gun hunters. The pressure around my woods is enormous!!

The deer are under constant pressure from October-December in the place I hunt. Bowhunters, crossbow hunters to start the season, then guns come to play in mid November.

Use to be no pressure but someone finally bought the neighboring farm just for hunting so now those guys and all there buddies put alot of pressure on them. I seen alot of deer come running threw my woods last year from there way![:@]

The deer i hunt are under pressure 24/7 and even 10 times worse once the season opens.

I hunt public land and the deer are pressured very hard, especially since every knows there are B&C in those hills and hollows. [X(]I find my self trying to figure out other hunters habits and patterns as much as I do the deer and hunt accordingly. WhenI figurethe hunters out, wear I need to be becomes crystal clear. Conditioningfor a couple months before season helps to