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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5007813" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Much depends on the habitat and terrain. Where I hunt is very steep ridge-and-hollow hardwoods, which greatly limits visual distances. In addition, we've done so much timber thinning and TSI work that most of our habitat is either thick young saplings or timber with a great deal of undergrowth, due to a lot of sunlight getting in under the canopy. So our visual distances are quite short. In fact, our average rifle/MZ shot is only 35 yards, about bow range, and mainly because we rarely have stands set up where we can see a lot farther.</p><p></p><p>Now if someone was hunting flat open ag land, that would be a different story. Seeing a lot of deer in and around open fields is not abnormal.</p><p></p><p>Although I will also say we intentionally keep deer density low on our managed land, to keep animal quality high. Unless you have virtually unlimited high-quality food sources available (which few properties do), deer quality and deer density are always going to be inversely related.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5007813, member: 17"] Much depends on the habitat and terrain. Where I hunt is very steep ridge-and-hollow hardwoods, which greatly limits visual distances. In addition, we've done so much timber thinning and TSI work that most of our habitat is either thick young saplings or timber with a great deal of undergrowth, due to a lot of sunlight getting in under the canopy. So our visual distances are quite short. In fact, our average rifle/MZ shot is only 35 yards, about bow range, and mainly because we rarely have stands set up where we can see a lot farther. Now if someone was hunting flat open ag land, that would be a different story. Seeing a lot of deer in and around open fields is not abnormal. Although I will also say we intentionally keep deer density low on our managed land, to keep animal quality high. Unless you have virtually unlimited high-quality food sources available (which few properties do), deer quality and deer density are always going to be inversely related. [/QUOTE]
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