Sorry for being the guy that asks for help and doesn't post how the hunt went so here goes. After 3 road trips to Nebraska approximately 12-13 days of true hunting I'm eating tag soup. We saw some good numbers of deer, mostly whitetail but we saw even better numbers of hunters, In this time span we covered a lot of properties looking for the sign/deer possibly to many properties? With the pressure I could not believe the amount of people we ran into and how they had no respect for where other hunters planned to hunt, I understand its public but if I talk to a guy and know where he is going I do not deliberately go in and cut them off I go to a different area. We typically would not see deer until we hit the 2-3 mile mark which in hindsight makes sense because the average person probably pushed in around a mile or 2, once we were in and seeing some deer we had opportunities at small bucks and doe, funny thing is on some midday drives to different areas we'd be laughing because we would drive by everything we were looking for right off the road on private. Talked to some locals and they stated this was the most hunters they have seen and they were sick of seeing hunters because of the revolving onslaught of hunters asking to hunt there land, good for there economy bad for them getting chores done as one guy put it.
Things I have taken from this years hunt: Do more research and find bigger properties, get deeper on those tracts of land, keep applying for points further West, again I now understand I need to get further away just need to find those areas, get better at starting conversations with locals.
So there is my honest report, we had fun, came home safe and had opportunities to harvest deer. Hindsight 20-20 it was a success!
Thank you for this forum and all the help/hints you have given me thus far.