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Offline macksdad

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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #60 on: February 02, 2011, 05:11:00 PM »
Right here in Ohio.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #61 on: February 02, 2011, 05:26:00 PM »
Another pick for IOWA...
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #62 on: February 02, 2011, 05:29:00 PM »
Louisiana. I really miss living there.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #63 on: February 02, 2011, 06:03:00 PM »
Wisconsin is my choice. I have been fortunate to have hunted whitetails in many states. But theres still nowhere like home.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #64 on: February 02, 2011, 06:07:00 PM »
No way I'm staying right here in Ontario.
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Offline Wary Buck

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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #65 on: February 02, 2011, 06:51:00 PM »
I've only hunted whitetails in two states, NE and IA.  From my experiences in IA, hands down that state although they are starting to experience some questionable deer management these days (especially in terms of how it affects bowhunters).  In my hunts over there, about half of the bucks seen were 110" or better, and that makes for very interesting hunting.

I predict very poor days ahead for NE's deer based on their current strategies which seem based more on legislative micromanaging and shotgun management schemes than anything else.  It's too bad, because things were improving gradually through most of the 2000's, mostly by accident it now seems.  I hope I'm wrong.  

Kansas is the state I wish I'd tried.  A very interesting place for a person to live would be in the SW corner of Iowa or NE corner of Kansas.  They could hunt their own state cheap, hunt NE and MO over-the-counter relatively cheap as non-residents, and play the application game at either IA or KS (whichever they didn't live in).  Pretty good gig for the whitetail fanatic.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #66 on: February 02, 2011, 08:37:00 PM »
Kentucky! Heck, I'd move down there if my wife would go...dang her hide! Jason
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #67 on: February 02, 2011, 08:47:00 PM »
Michigan, been hunting whitetails here since 1970, hunted opening here with my son since he was 4yrs old and still hunt opening with him every year. Just can't imagine missing any of it. Still hunting my late Grandparents farm the new owner has given me hunting rights for as long as I want it just means so much to  still be in those woods I grew up in.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #68 on: February 02, 2011, 08:53:00 PM »
Thats awesome Doug, Its great to be able to hunt with your son for so many years on the same place you grew up on, Bet it means alot.

Thanks everyone for the powwow chat its really cool how everyone has a State and reason behind it.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #69 on: February 02, 2011, 08:53:00 PM »
Iowa. plus I live here.  ;)
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #70 on: February 02, 2011, 11:11:00 PM »
It would be hard for me to travel somewhere, to hunt something I could hunt in my backyard.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #71 on: February 02, 2011, 11:39:00 PM »
Love hunting KY, but having hunted Iowa which put a totally different perspective on hunting whitetails.

I have only taken a couple of P&Y's and I am lucky to see 1 to 2 P&Y's a season.  I have never seen a booner from the stand.

In one week in Iowa,from a stand. I saw two booners, passed on two 130 class bucks, had a monster in close that would never stop in the open where I could pull off a shot yet actually drew three times on him but he was rutting hard. Also saw four other 130 -140 class deer that were out of range.

Where I hunted in Iowa, 8 out of 10 bucks that make P&Y are 2 1/2 yr olds.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #72 on: February 03, 2011, 03:26:00 AM »
Would have to stay in NY only because I hunt with my brothers here. Now if I'm allowed to take them...... Well, then we are off to Wyoming. Love hunting there
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #73 on: February 03, 2011, 06:16:00 AM »
Westchester County NY, if you can get access to some private land, you can get onto some really nice bucks, especially if you can get access to abandoned estates.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #74 on: February 03, 2011, 07:32:00 AM »
I am not the right one to ask -- I have only hunted Whitetails in the state of Wisconsin, so my answer is Wisconsin. A lot of public land through out state, particularly like the big northern woods of Wisconsin -- not as many deer though, thanks Jerry.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #75 on: February 03, 2011, 08:30:00 AM »
This might seem a little odd but I'm looking forward to hunting RI this Fall. A buddy of mine has been telling me about the amount of deer he sees while hunting there. The deer are not monsters but then again I'm not a trophy hunter. There are big deer but not giants. The hunting season goes through January and you can hunt on Sundays.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #76 on: February 03, 2011, 08:40:00 AM »
Missouri.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #77 on: February 03, 2011, 09:01:00 AM »
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Westchester County NY, if you can get access to some private land, you can get onto some really nice bucks, especially if you can get access to abandoned estates.
x2 on that...My old man told me stories of massive ten points and 16 pointers with droptines when he used to hunt there in the 70's.

He said the 16 point was a non typical and regularly used a run litterally feet from a chainlink fence and I95.He knew the deer was there and setup on it trying to get a shot.Well one time he seen the deer coming,and said that buck got his rack caught in the chain link fence.It started thrashing around and he RAN over to it trying to get a shot and just as he got there it freed itself and bounded off.  :laughing:  

As a kid growing up there I seen some of the biggest buck I saw in my life (Till I went to OH)'Bout impossible to find a place to hunt there.I get to hunt about a 3 acre parcel in Shrub oak periodically.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #78 on: February 03, 2011, 01:21:00 PM »
Grass is always greener.... I love Montana, but 140-145 is about as good as it gets around me.  I would love to hunt KS, IA, or IL where the chance of a monster is a real possibility.  Don't get me wrong though, I'm plenty happy here.
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Re: Pick A State
« Reply #79 on: February 03, 2011, 02:02:00 PM »
I've only ever hunted in NY so can't judge.  But if the bucks on KentuckyTJ's album all came from Kentucky I'd go there and shadow him.    :thumbsup:  

Any one of those has more antler than I have seen in the past two years if all added up.
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