I've always wondered too... I grew up hunting northern Michigan with thousands of other"hunters" & can count on one hand the bucks I ever saw that were older than a year & a half. When I inherited the farm in southern Michigan, I immediately saw fewer hunters & more/larger bucks. Sota, people give you a lot of crap, but you have a good handle on what's going on.
Southern Ontario? I tell my wife all the time we need to move farther north... Somewhere colder...Looks like heaven up there (from southern Michigan).
I sure do! That made my season! Didn't care if I even saw a deer. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Im a straight up bowhunter myself. who cares what they say man. most guys dont understand that Hunting northwoods whitetail is hard, Especially with a Bow. I've been there before. But If I compare your level of hunting in the state by difficult. You are a 1st stringer man.
I strongly agree Skywalker. small private parcels are the best to produce and hunt big bucks. my 9 years of Bowhunting since I was 18. My biggest and oldest buck That I arrowd on my 80acre farm was a 4 1/2 11ptr and it scored 137 6/8 gross 136typical gross and 128 5/8 P&y net. It was my first P&Y typical in the P&Y record book. 7 years of practicing QDM, 1/2 acre food plots, Trophy rock minerals, and the agriculture corn and soybeans. It all paid off.
Hey guys & girls, trying to post a turkey success video...See if this works. Sorry the video is not high quality (done on my phone after the shot)
Amateur success to me is just putting myself in the right place for success. Don't have to always kill! Fooling a nice buck and video taping him is what its all about to me. I let this buck come by me at 15 yards to get a drink at a natural water hole. Decided I wanted to give him another year, so I video taped him as he came right back out on the same trail and let him walk. But the problem with letting them walk sometimes, is you may never see them again. As was the case with this deer. Part of the deal if you want to try and let them grow!
Many good deer get a pass for me as well. This one. Got the pass this fall. Sent from my LG-H820 using Tapatalk
Skywalker, it's pics like yours that get folks going. The website update deleted your success pics. Would love to see them again?
The Northeast is a sleeper area. Quite a few deer over 150-160" are taken. I've never done it personally (I haven't broken 130"), but I hear of, and see pictures of Booners taken every season. My goal is to get one in the next 3 years. These are my 2 biggest, both from a 133 acre private property.
2 beautiful bucks Rampaige! I have a 150"+ buck on my camera this year.. I probably will never see him, but it's nice knowing he's around....
Pay attention to the little things and don't over hunt your stands and it makes it easier for him to make a mistake. I wish you luck!
This is spot on regarding the Northeast. There is very little agricultural and a lot of the farming (in CT at least) is dairy farming. There are hardly any crops and the farms that do have crops obtain crop damage deer tags and wipe out as many deer as they can from the property. We just don't have the expansive food farms that exist in the Midwest. What we do have is close to 30,000 killed by deer on the roadways of CT alone, most land in CT is not legal to hunt, and state land where hunting is permitted is incredibly overpressured.
