Like bar270 said…you could count on one hand the places that have deer in decent numbers..the places where there is a little land and a few deer are places where the habitat is less fractured and there are fewer people..just like pretty much everywhere in zone c..we have always had poor fawn recruitment and when they moved us to 2 does a day our initially decent population growth got put on hiatus..its getting better..slowly..we live somewhere that that has too many limiting factors..ie. too much fractured and poor quality habitat combined with too many people and the ilk that goes along with them..spread around..shoulder to shoulder so to speak..and the places youd pay good money to hunt..either want let you hunt..or it will cost you your first born child..or..it will look great..be of a reasonable price..and youll hunt..and hunt…aaannnndddd hunt..and hunt..an may or may not see a squirrel..places like i just mentioned are so far and few between they aint even worth mentioning..you are right tho..very dependent on location..but..that to..would insinuate a ray of hope in finding said location and being given an opportunity to hunt..folks here aint got a whole lot..an they stingy with what they have..but if you look long enough and hard enough..you might find somethin..i personally think blount county and morgan too are very pretty counties..ive seen many more deer there in passing…but still..id go west..preferrably texas😃🇺🇸