I live and hunt in one of those big deer states up here. Big deer meaning size of body mass and not the size of deer numbers... Success is mostly based on hours spent hunting for that big one..Although in this area seeing much of any deer is doing something most of the time. Big woods and low deer numbers success has a lot of different factors to weigh in. The size of the racks on most big deer up here wouldn't make a Pope and Young while body mass makes up for alot of it... I did see one yesterday while heading out on a dirt road fishing, I will be looking for this fall. That is one of the rare ones that carried a hugh rack complete with a lot of body mass. So i will be putting in my hours looking for him...Also a factor that should be concidered is if you hunt from a stand or do you stalk your game? I enjoy stalking and believe me it is a very hard thing to do up this way. But, that is my stile of hunting...