The apples up here seem to be on an every other year cycle. Lots of apples, acorns and beech nuts this year from what I am seeing. I am in Southern Maine, live in Gorham. Yes, I hunt expanded down around here..
HuntMaine, I have never hunted Maine. My father used to go up to the Forks area I believe. I would like to try to hunting big woods Maine bucks sometime though. I go to Maine every summer for vacation and love it.
Some very big deer up around the Forks area!! Hard hunting, but usually when you get into them, the bucks are good size! Big woods hunting is very fulfilling, as it is a challenge for sure.
My older son and I once came across an apple tree (I think it was part of an old abandoned orchard) in a public hunting area in eastern Washington. The deer had eaten all the apples as high as they could get them by standing on their hind legs, and we also saw where a bear had climbed up inside the tree and eaten all the apples within his reach. All that were left were on the upper, outer part of the tree's branches, kinda looking like a wool cap.
I have good luck with them hitting the apples. I have a good tree on the edge of my food plot. Seems like most of the deer check the tree out when they come to plot
i have had success hunting around apple trees, but mostly in the early season, however a couple of friends have had success late October, where the girls are the bucks will follow. They had a lot does coming to the apple trees, and the bucks came around sniffing. good luck this year with your apple trees
