It’s very place-specific here. A place with good cover and water can have adequate deer numbers with good bucks while a place a mile away without good habitat may not produce a sighting. Although numbers are increasing and consequently more hunting is going on, there are also many areas with little to no hunting pressure. Some nice old deer are taken every year.
Good luck!
That sounds like this place. Its about 40 acres with excellent habitat, and surrounded by similar land. I don't think there is much hunting pressure. Land owners never hunted it until last year. After they shot 4 does, meat for the family, they said I could come out and hunt. I shot an 8 point buck in 30-45 minutes of walking the property.