I don't know, I kind of seek out some of the most difficult public hunting around me even though I could certainly do private. I guess it's my way of making it a challenge. I have good friends who do the food plot deer husbandry game, and I can see what they get out all the work (and $$$$) they put in too, but it's just not my game, not now. I like room to roam virtually endless mountain public land and the uncertaintly of low deer densities. The appeal to me of growing and nurturing a deer I "have history with" is virtually zero. I want to conquer that mountain monarch that I scarcely knew existed, slay the ghost.
Egos though are one of the reasons I don't like many other hunters. You guys aside of course! It's weird, it's like paradoxically a defining personality trait of mine and something I try to mostly avoid discussing with other people in real life. My wife will be like, hey meet my friend's husband, you guys hunt, you will get along great! I'm like, holy F, my 3 friends are enough, can't wait to hear about his bow brand fetish and broadhead worshipping and what his thoughts on clover mixes and scent control are. Sounds like a real gem. Whack em and stack em! Haha.