Is your club on the williams cove side or is it more on the guess creek area and ive always wondered about stuff getting stolen up there with all the traffic going through there.... i put some cameras out last year and didnt have any trouble had a couple of pics of other hunters but nobody messed with them from what i could tell

I guess it all depends on where you put your stuff. I know where about 5 treestands are within a 200 yard radius right now. If I was a thief tho, ain't no way in hell I'd haul em out of there.

Forgot to add that I found the answer to my OP. They did start making the camp ground for us at the entrance but some of the neighbors apparently didn't like the fact that us no good public land hunters were gonna be camping next to em. So they called the senators or whatever and got it stopped. We will be camping behind the gun range yet again.

I don't see how someone would want to haul a deer out of the places I have found tree stands much less a 20lb tree stand. None of my stuff has been bothered on the WMA other than someone trespassing off the WMA deleting all the photos off my camera on my lease. I ran several people off that were trespassing last year. I have several pics of a couple of guys walking all around my cameras but I don't reckon they have ever seen it or if they have they didn't mess with it. Any of yall have blonde curly hair and wear glasses?

Does anyone think there is anywhere on the jacobs tract that people havent been or want go besides in the clear cuts on the top???? Im just curious how the pressure is in certain areas

There's nowhere to get away from the crowd. I had most of it leased for several years before it went public and know the land very well. On the first public gun hunt, I was buried up in the nastiest, roughest, hardest to get to area on the mountain and had people walking all over me all morning. I thought hitting the hell - holes was a sure way to get away from everyone else. Apparently, everyone else had the same idea. I stayed with it until after lunch and still counted 52 trucks on the way back to camp. I went one more time on the last hunt of the season and it was even worse than the opener. Unless something changes, I won't be back. CD.

I dont feel so bad only seeing 6 loads of side by sides on the gun hunt i went on...... i guess ill stick with hunting when its not the gun hunts ... maybe there want be as many people up there during those times

Just my observations here ... I hunted Walls of Jericho the year Jacob's was opened up. I was expecting to see a whole lot of folks hunting it but rarely saw anyone other than my own guys. I think Jacob's took a huge amount of pressure off of the walls and did last season too. I also think that over the next few years the over pressure on Jacobs will slow down as more and more hunters figure all this out.

I Think I"ll hunt the other 50,000 acres.

Yep!

Haha yep, business as usual for me too

I actually thought jacobs track wasn't as crowded as the other side. That is if you avoid the tourist traps where you can see all the way down the mountain through the hardwoods. the trick is to park your vehicle on the main road and walk down the dead end road so that people will know your hunting that spot. theres no need for a utv or atv on jacobs tract, I don't understand why people rely on them when you can drive a truck. everyonce in a while I will park at the road and walk down the deadend road to find an atv hiding at the end, in which case I leave

The places i have been u wouldnt want to drive your truck unless its an old yota and especially if it has rained a couple of days and those hills get wet and sloopy u better be locked all the way around or your not coming back out of those places.......

After forever wild bought Jacobs where we were in a club ,I thought I would hang in there and stick with it a while . hunted some private land that joined it on top. Hunting quickly went to hell. I pulled my camper home in Feb and will not be back. That place has been raped !

If ya'll think Jacobs is bad stay away from Little Coon and Big Coon because it's even worse. The roads are maintained and a lot of it can be reached by car it's a nightmare.The game wardens are bad about walking in and checking you on stand over there also.Walking down and back up on the Walls side is your best bet to get away from the crowds,just be prepared to eat what you kill there.