This will fire up some souls.......Can open.... worms everywhere!

Let me be perfectly clear....Whats allowed where u hunt is copasedic with me.
Heres my question.....Do hunters that hunt natural habitat(regular hard woods)No plots,no baiting,no farm crops,HUNT HARDER THAN THOSE WHO HAVE THE LATTER?????
..............................................................................................READY GO!

 

We only have farmland in Iowa!

 

I hunt natural habitat and I still use a latter!

 

How hard someone hunts is determined by the character of that person, not by where they hunt.

 

HAWC.

Agreed.

 

x3 if someone puts no work into it they wont be successful

 

100% agree.

Though I know that big woods has forced me to become a better hunter and woodsman.

I have the same feelings about bowhunting vs rifle hunting. Bowhunting doesn't make you a good hunter, but it forces you to be better than you were prior.

 

Justin hit the nail on the head.

I think what the OP is getting at though, is whether those that hunt mass expansions of ag crops, food plots, etc., have it easier than those that hunt big woods whitetails. In that case, I would certainly say yes. If anyone has ever hunted the big woods of Maine, Michigan or even here in my home state of PA, you'll know that finding food sources in the middle of nowhere is difficult and to be consistently successful in those places, you have to hunt hard to find food sources and deer using them.

I know many from my neck of the woods that head to the midwest each year and they all say the same thing. Finding deer isn't a problem.

 

True Dat!!

 

^ this again !

The harder I work the luckier I get :D

You get out of deer season what you put into it

 

harder you work the more fulfilling the harvest is, but this works both ways. it can be more upsetting when you put a lot of work into your hunt and don't see anything.

 

i believe it MIGHT take a little more dedication to hunt the big woods..thats all thats around here and sometimes i go weeks maybe seeing one or two doe..good sign around but movement is so unpredictable and widespread..its truly being at the right place at the right time and always being in the woods to catch that oppurtunity..i suppose this can be the case even in farmland tho.

 

Its all about the effort and hours you put in not location

 

What he said.

 

Its not a matter of hunting harder. Its a matter of how hard the hunting is. I have no doubt that the farmland boys work there butts off, espicially with the food plots. However i believe big woods hunting is harder. Smaller deer population, lower buck to doe ratio, and much harder to maintain. And the differences compared to the farmland around me and the Adirondacks is astronomical. You can sit a field watch around here and see 10 deer every day but they're most likely does. In the mountains you can see 10 deer all year and one might be the brute that knows every trick in the book. But i think us hunters work equally hard, its how hard the animals work against us is what really matters.

 

never used that latter stuff but Justin said it perfectly.

 

In my experiences, I agree with you

 

I agree with Justin but would also like to add that adaptation is also a large part of being a successful hunter.

If you hunt the woods each and every time you are in your stand you gain knowledge about deer movement. So they walked by at 40 yards. Tomorrow you can move your stand and maybe get them at 15.

I don't have a lot of woods to hunt, about an acre. I knew going into the season i wasn't granted access to go in after the deer so i had to figure out a way to bring them to me. I busted my @$$ on a food plot and now i have deer in it either morning or evening almost every day.

Adapting is what keeps us ahead of the game and enables us to throw an arrow down range and drag a monster out.

 

I dont agree at all....

Determination being equal between hunter "A" and hunter "B", which I'm sure is what the starter of this thread had in mind.
Hunter "A" hunts farm land (high deer density) and hunter "B" hunts a big woods sitting (low deer density)...hunter "B" will have to scout and hunt harder to get it done.

Now we can pretend that the deer density is equal also, lol. Hunter "A" hunts an area with limited cover and a well defined food source (farm land) and hunter "B" hunts cover for miles and no defined food source (big woods)....hunter "B" still has to scout and hunt harder to get it done.

 

I dont agree at all....

Determination being equal between hunter "A" and hunter "B", which I'm sure is what the starter of this thread had in mind.
Hunter "A" hunts farm land (high deer density) and hunter "B" hunts a big woods sitting (low deer density)...hunter "B" will have to scout and hunt harder to get it done.

Now we can pretend that the deer density is equal also, lol. Hunter "A" hunts an area with limited cover and a well defined food source (farm land) and hunter "B" hunts cover for miles and no defined food source (big woods)....hunter "B" still has to hunt harder to get it done.