Despite good "sign", many locations get burned out for daylight deer activity. Sure, there can be lots of tracks, rubs and scrapes, but if an area is pounded with human activity and scent, most will likely be from after dark.
While our camp log book data is for private land, it's bordered by public on both sides, so there's significant human pressure. My property is in a region with some of the most intense deer hunting pressure in the entire USA.
That said, over the past 40 years it's remarkable how many kills came from the very first time a stand was hunted.
What else is remarkable is, despite a location having lots of kills over the years, deer sightings crashed at those same locations, no matter how seemingly great they are/were, after a stand has been hunted 4-5 times in a season.
Of course, with public land, one has zero control of others hunting an area.
My suggestion is, if you have no access to private land and only hunt public, look for public parcels that were clearcut within the past 10 years or are marshy, with no good treestand spots. This will eliminate most compound bowhunters, who primarily hunt only from treestands. From there, hunt the ground and get ready!