nmaineron,I remember reading about some guys I think they were the Benoit brothers or something similar.They used to kill some really big deer,300#.They would still hunt and shoot remington 760 pumps.I 've seen some PBS programs on Northern deer and winter yards.I can imagine it really gets hard to find food late in winter and coyotes could wreak havoc on weakend deer bunched together.We just don't have hard winters down south.In fact if we don't get some early frosts to kill down the browse in the thickets,we don't see nearly as many deer.We do have some coyotes but they are small and really only a threat to fawns and young deer.I have seen or heard of areas were the coyotes severely hurt the fawn survival rates.We just rarely see them,they are spooky.I agree about whitetails and edges or fringes.One reason we have so many deer is the edges created by timber harvest.My favorite spots to hunt are were hardwood btms meet pine thickets.One problem we are begining to see is an explosion in feral hogs.You see the sign everywere and they will wreak havoc on the woods and food plots.But they are spookier than deer,almost completely nocturnal.We will probably have to start trapping some,hunting alone cannot reduce the numbers and we don't have enough habitat to support hogs and deer.Now moose,I bet thats a tough critter to get out of the woods.I hear the meat is real tasty.

Billy

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