Are some private lands more pressured than public lands?

I mean, it’s all dependent on what track of private vs what track of public.

My camp is more pressured during turkey season than the national forest that borders my private land by a large margin, and I'd also agree that the deer hunting has more pressure too.

That's due to the timber company not burning or spraying, so our suitable turkey habitat is limited and moving on one can be damn near impossible outside of using the woods road because of the thickets.

But the pressure is also due to the explosion in turkey hunting popularity. Twenty years ago there might be 5 of us on any given Saturday. Nowadays there's more people at camp in April than on Christmas break to the point where there's no longer enough room and we're going to have to deal with it in some way.

Where I used to hunt in MS had locals that were ruthless. Anything with horns got shot. Very rarely were big rack bucks killed.

I hear ya. Some leases are loaded and you’ll see them every hunt. Also some are so pressured they are always nocturnal

Absolutely. And when baiting is used on private land, the effect of human intrusion on deer behavior is magnified. Deer get trained to be nocturnal very fast.

I’m here to tell you, human scent in the woods is more impactful to deer than hounds.

Without a doubt some private lands are more pressured!!

Some private lands are more pressured than some public lands.

Piney wood Weyerhaeuser leases between Livingston and Hammond are without a doubt more pressured than Maurepas WMA

There's a lot of private property where deer are spot lighted and shot at year round.

Gun weekend at Yancey looks like rivalry high school football game.