Been hunting it for years. The crowds have quadrupled or more in the last 2 years. Mostly out of state hunters. There are deer there, but every time we found deer last year, other hunters walked in on us (literally parked beside us and walked in on a few occasions) or would walk right through an area with deer and blow them out.
Not trying to be disparaging, it’s just getting really really crowded out there and from the number of threads I’m seeing on here, it’s gonna be worse this year.
Walking in won’t help you much, everyone walks nowadays and a lot of the bucks were on private land. I can say look for sections of land that are overlooked by most hunters and out of the “normal zone”.
Also, I spoke with a biologist who said the counties to the west are getting hit hard by CWD and it is spreading faster than they want to admit. Wall is about as far west as we have been going because of the crowds and CWD (seen it first hand).
