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This is an awesome forum and I'm glad that I stumbled upon it and hope to learn a lot and hopefully share my experience as well. Also this is my first post so, yippee! haha
Here it goes! I've been hunting for quite a while on a small piece of land (26 acres) that my family is blessed to own and have been fortunate enough to harvest some decent "PA bucks". The nice thing about this spot is that I'm almost guaranteed a deer every year, but with the hunting pressure from surrounding areas there are not many big deer. So after 14 years I am going to start hunting public land way back in where many hunters are too lazy to venture in the hopes of harvesting a truly mature whitetail. Now I know it isn't easy and I may go some years without even harvesting a buck, but on a few of the trail cameras that I have hung in the past year I have seen some pictures of some true giants (140" +). There are tons of deer in areas where people claim there aren't any but they take work to find. They use trails more sporadically and food is scarce.
My question is this:
Are there any guys/gals out there that consistently hunt public, mountain ground and can shed some light on techniques to hang trail cameras properly for those areas?
I could hang a camera and throw out bait but I want to instead learn some ways to pattern deer in these vast areas and then develop a game plan for success!
Thanks!

Here it goes! I've been hunting for quite a while on a small piece of land (26 acres) that my family is blessed to own and have been fortunate enough to harvest some decent "PA bucks". The nice thing about this spot is that I'm almost guaranteed a deer every year, but with the hunting pressure from surrounding areas there are not many big deer. So after 14 years I am going to start hunting public land way back in where many hunters are too lazy to venture in the hopes of harvesting a truly mature whitetail. Now I know it isn't easy and I may go some years without even harvesting a buck, but on a few of the trail cameras that I have hung in the past year I have seen some pictures of some true giants (140" +). There are tons of deer in areas where people claim there aren't any but they take work to find. They use trails more sporadically and food is scarce.
My question is this:
Are there any guys/gals out there that consistently hunt public, mountain ground and can shed some light on techniques to hang trail cameras properly for those areas?
I could hang a camera and throw out bait but I want to instead learn some ways to pattern deer in these vast areas and then develop a game plan for success!
Thanks!