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Postman:
Find the thickest stuff you can and hunt hard early in the season before all the does are spooked. Also, I have success closer to roads than you would think - as long as it's thick.
good luck!

johnston:
I have killed several deer (handgun) on crowded WMA's by sitting later than the other guys. Once you learn an area, you can set up so that departing hunters push deer to you. Works good for meat hunters like myself.

Lane

tetaxidermy:
Meat hunter, thats me love them does.

crooketarrow:
  I stay away from weekens and holidays, get away from the trails and roads. When you find that area stash that climber or get a ghillie and hunt on the ground. Around here a blind would'nt last long.

iowabow:
I have a funny story about hunting public ground. I lived next to a large track of national forest where everyone would come down and hunt. They would set up deer camps everywhere that they could find a place to park. In the morning they would get up and head as far into the woods as possible to get away from all of the people. I was good at tracking and seeing animal patterns and noticed that the deer would pattern the hunters movements and move in close to their camps because of the deep pressure. So I set my stand up 100yards behind their camp in a set of cedars. like clock work the deer would filter from the deep woods back to the thick cedars a 100yards from their camp and bed down till 45 minutes before dark when they would get up an walk past my stand. After three years of seeing me harvest deer they wanted to know what my trick was. You should have seen the expression on their face when I told them what I was doing. I took a nice 8 point one year doing that. The trick was to hunt where you could only see 25 yards. Most hunters want to see 100s of yards but that is too open for scared deer.

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