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I got married and moved up from Kentucky last year. At home I have several places to hunt including the family farm (211 acres with 4 people allowed to hunt including myself). The problem is getting there from Columbus is about a 5 hour drive, which makes it hard to manage and leaves my dad to tend to things pretty much by himself. Anyways, I digress. For convenience this year I decided to hunt public land up here in Ohio. I'm 26 and by the grace of God in good health so I'm good with going deep where the lazy man won't. That's what I thought I was doing this past week during gun season. I made it to public land and walked in about 45 minutes-1 hour back. Got my climber up the tree and at daybreak it sounded like a holy war. I sat in the stand all day and had around 12:30 heard grunting coming from behind my right shoulder...(perfect as I'm a lefty). Put the rifle on full cock but left the safety on until I identified my target. You can imagine my surprise when I see a genius covered head to toe in orange step out blowing a grunt call. There was no risk of accident because I was raised smarter than that but goes to show people are dumb. Secondly, the deer didn't seem to want to cooperate much. I'm good with getting skunked if I can learn something. Is there public land to be found where people are too lazy to go or is it that packed? I ask because I thought I'd found some and I was wrong. Does it take a lease to kill nice deer up here?