[ironhorse]

private lands , I f you can find someone who'll let you hunt aren't bad.. Public lands the populations have been desimated..........Where I hunt, south central pa, when we went spotting, before we would see up to 70 deer and as many as 20 bucks. Now we saw 2 does. Private land owners who do not know you, or who not known you long enough, are afraid to let people on their land due to property damage , legal issues or just plan shooting their livestock. We did get lucky and shoot one doe the 1st day out of the muzzleloader season. My coworkers wife said that one committed suicide . Because it ran up on us and stopped and gazed at us. At about 35 yards. Wasn't a tough decision to make to take it or not.