Interesting to see the different results with urban hunting. And I figured out the problem. With urban hunting, you either have it or you dont! And my buddy doesnt. I tried to film him fill the freezer with a healty doe all season, without luck. Probably the curse of the camera. It is agreat property, it is his backyard. But there are alot of deer, but in that 8 acres of land there are probably 20 different trails they can use, and it wasnt till late in the season when they decided to actually funnel into one of the trails. It is tought there, and there seems to be only a 40 min window in the morning and evening that they cross through.
See the problem is next door is a farm, about 140 acres, that is set up for hunting, he has governement buffer instalments with soybeans and corn layered going up to a hill, at least that is what it looks like on google earth. And that is the direction they are always hunting. We know the guy over there hunts, because his sisters boyfreind is freinds with him, so he gives us a heads up when the neighbor is gona kill one of the bucks. My freind is trying to manage the herd, let the bucks grow up, and populate, but the neighbor shoots them when they grow decent antlers, dont blame him but it is tough.
Anyway to make a long story short. I would rather hunt public land in Western Maryland where there is a 1 to 5 ratio and a terrible herd than his place!