public land deer arent like normal deer , they get slammed with so much pressure , i have hunted public land deer for almost my whole hunting carrer thats 20 years , curran gave you the best advice so far , pressured deer dont act like noraml deer on public land , 90 percent of deer i see taken on public land are taken on pinch points , weather they are pushed from drives or just running from people who sling 50 slugs at em they will take the path of least resistance to get to cover escape routes , escape routes , escape routes , more big deer are taking off of public land from escape routes , get in there scout found where big deer are living and if your gonna bow hunt it hunt like you normally would a property , but if your gonna gun hunt it set up on a escape route , most times deer are pushed out of bedrooms by either drivers or just some idiot bumbling round looking for a deer to shoot and when he goes to bolt he is gonna use a way out he knows best which is closest to cover , hunt slowly , very slowly , if you have to look down at your feet to make sure you dont make noise breakign a stick or something your walking to fast , i watched a ravine get pounded hard first 5 hours of light on first day of season , me and my buddy got bored and decided to get up and do a two man drive on this ravine to kill some time and get feeling back in oiur cold legs , we started walking through a thicket of small trees that every one walked around cause it had about a foot of water laying in it and had a hillside of nothing but mud , well that little thicket that everyone walked around that wasnt even more then 50 square yards held the biggest deer my buddy has ever shot at , a 150 class 10 point with double drops , every one else walked around it and this deer knew he was safe , anyway , because every one else walked normally round it the deer knew where they were and stayed put , we walked with a 3 step gait , take three loud steps then stop for up to a minute then take 3 quiet steps , the deer get nervous and bolt cause one minute they know where your at and the next your in a tottally different spot , they get nervous and bolt from thier hiding spots