The land that I hunt is about 200 acres (family land) with a lake on the north end and smaller land owners on all sides (no hunting clubs in area). We don’t shoot does unless it’s archery and we seen more deer in the past 5 years than we have seen in the previous 20 years. Quality of bucks keeps going up also and we use corn & also planted different fruit trees in key areas (apples, persimmons, etc)

Most of my neighbors don’t hunt and I really don’t care what they do as long as they don’t put a stand or a feeder next to our property line (they are all pretty cool and we don’t tell them what to do, but they all know that we hunt & they don’t tell us what to do either).

Letting the does walk and keeping the predators in check (yotes & bobcats) seems to be the secret sauce to improving the quality of bucks.