The deer population is still way down from everything I see, and hear spoken locally here in 4A. Sure, there are small pockets of underpressured type "field deer" here and there , but just because it's private doesn't mean it's holding alot of deer. Hard to blame it on the orange army when there's a lack there of, but still....you see some pieces of private property with very low pressure decline yr after yr.
A friend has a small, but generally productive property that is surrounded by private, and the back side butts up to a 10,000 acre gun club with like 15 members. His hunting has come to the point he's lucky to see a buck, and I believe he saw like 10 deer during season and he sat all day for 6-7 days. I hunted SGL #49 near Amaranth, and heard a fair amount of shooting the first day, but only saw 4 does . Had to work Sunday, but was able to return and take a big doe the third day from #49.
