I own some property in North Alabama in an area that in the past has had a good number of deer and some real nice bucks. Now the numbers have dropped, and the racks have gotten a lot smaller, and I believe it is due to leased property surrounding me. As the lease cost gets higher it takes more hunters to group together so they can afford the lease, so with more hunters more deer taken each year. Now if you combined that with a very long gun season, a liberal bag limit, legal baiting and 0-10 scale of Game Warden contact being a -1 it has come to this point. The landowners place no restriction on the lease, so BID is in place and why not the hunters have nothing vested in the property, it falls on the landowner shoulders to manage the herd and they love the $$$ more. Now with all above said here is my point to the post, all of you hunters that are making a move to public land hunting, looks like it may be spot on for the future of hunting. It seems public land is better protected now.