My hunting area isn't "rich" in camp members as far as who is in the woods come opening days. Some around, but it's mostly locals, their kin and friends that do the majority of the hunting there and tend to move deer.
Using that example, where there once about fifteen or more of them that hunted together and drove frequently, now there are maybe a half dozen left that still hunt together.
Most of the folks that come to camps are sitters and seldom, if ever move any deer from their land onto someone else's land.
Three or four of the older ones in the local gang have died in the past several years. Two got into their mid 70s, have health issues and don't hunt at all now. Some of the younger ones moved away and no longer come back to hunt deer. So that change impacted how many times people are in the woods moving deer in my immediate area.
Things took a bit of an upswing this past season, as there were about 10 or 12 guys in that group for the first three days and they did a bit of driving.
Late in the second week they got together again and moved deer from several areas that no one had set foot in all week. Found out the "new guys" were related to a farmer that had moved from the area some time ago, came back with some friends this season and joined the "old gang".
Hope they come back next year, too.
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