Sorry you guys missed me yesterday. Had to work out of town for the day.

That sounds pretty good. I can add some additional things like taking the effort to locate quality hunting areas. Stopped by one of the areas Wednesday and it looked like a jungle. It was logged a couple years ago and is now an absolute jungle. No sense hunting in an area where you can see through the woods for a 100 or so yards. No cover or vegetation for the deer so why would a deer stay there?

LOL, Just to set the record straight I work for a private engineering firm. I was a state employee, kind of, once and that was when I was an intern in college. Have worked for private firms ever since then. I believe that the habitat will tell us at what level it can support a certain number of deer per square mile or square forested mile. As vegetation comes back and increases so too will the higher carrying capacity allowing for more deer. We just need to be patient instead of worrying about "getting my deer" every year.

Would love to deer hunt northern Maine. Hunted bear in the NMW many times and usually see more moose than deer but when you see a buck I've always said that deer hunting northern Maine with a rifle is an ultimate challenge with some great conditions, low hunter density and the possiblity of snow for tracking undisturbed deer.

Yep, everyone is out for themself. Greed all around. Greedy governement, greedy biologists, greedy hunters.

I hunt from the first day of archery season to the last day of flintlock season and not just weekends. My co-workers are quite used to me coming in late in the morning after a couple hours hunting.