Strip mines can be gold mines for deer depending on age. If all the trees are grown up and no under brush or floor vegetation they wont be any different than any place else, but old roods and high walls can make some really good pinch points.
had this done to me just last year, it was a teenage boy. threw my camera batteries in creek and cut my straps and took battery out of a feeder. thought my stand was to close to his boundary. I went and had a good talk with him and his grandma made him replace it all. I was young once but man I...
Shooting all the doe and letting b uks go year after year causes em to scrap a ton more. I don’t have many bucks I have caught on camera this year but the few I seen are all scarred up… racks intact but the fur and neck as all beat up. Bare spots and cuts.