My best Public land experience is just finding a great Primary Scrape area only 130 yards from a road, 2010 there was 5 scrapes, 2011 4 scrapes, 2012 5 scrapes all within a 20 yard diameter and the buck activity is phenominal during the rut many of different bucks use this scrape area. Took my widest buck to date here 20.5" wide, only a 6 point but it was a big mature buck. That morning right before daylight I had a Owl land about 10 yards from me in a tree and just stare at me for about 5 minutes, then about 20 minutes later I had a Red fox run right under me and I took a shot at hime and missed at about 15 yards, and aout 15 minutes later I had my 20.5" buck come right into the scrapes got to watch him scrape and rub his forehead on the branch for about 5 minutes then he came into my mock scrape 15 yards away and he was quartering towards me I hit Him right above the shoulder and the arrow angled back into the lungs. i watched Hime run across the swamp he came from, and at first I was worried about the shot so I sat in the stand for about an hour and a half then followed the blood trail and he was down right in the tree line on the edge of the swamp just outta sight from my stand. He ran about 250 yards, there was no exit wound but A LOT of internal bleeding shot with a rgae 2 blade.