The area is already hammered with hunters, mostly non-residents as most local folks wouldn't waste their time on Paint Creek Wildlife Area. I've always thought it was a bit nutty to worry about where a big deer was found, killed, etc....the big one is already dead. We were hunting these deer on four different landowners. Three of them will let most anyone that asks hunt, which means any deer that is old enough to be interesting is pretty much nocturnal. This is why I had not deer hunted these properties for several years until Mason stumbled onto "Tines"... and we found him during gun season when I ran him out of a thicket and to Mason, a tactic we were afraid to utilize much afterward due to the likelihood of running him to another hunter! We stayed off the public ground for two reasons. One, every straight tree already has a dude with a climber in it. Two, we didn't want to bump him into a dude in a straight tree with a climber! I would imagine the area will see a slight increase in pressure, though I don't know how as there is already no available parking spots this time of year.
There are good deer in every part of the state I have ever hunted. These deer were exceptional. How they lived long enough to become exceptional where they lived is beyond me. These folks that want to hunt where an exceptional deer once lived would be far better served to let the deer in their home area live long enough to become exceptional.