Thanks 121553, I would tend to agree. As you are probably aware Saskatchewan does have a reputation of producing some pretty nice whitetails, what you may not know is a good number of those deer come off public land or crown land as we call up here[]. Almost all of the outfitting in Sask. takes place on crown land, with the only execption being Indian Reserves. The northern part (known as the Forest Fringe and Provinicial Forest areas) of this province provides a very good opportunity to harvest mature bucks, limited pressure, remote location and hard hunting-make these deer see very few humans and even less bullets/arrows.

Even in the farmland a large portion of hunting is done on Crown Land by resident hunters(moslty PFRA - Pastures, which are large tracks of bush areas with natural habitat, grazing and crop or hay land surrounding them). These PFRA-pastures all seem to have loads of dense bush, rolling hills and provide great escape routes and cover for the deer to grow big and wise. Access to private land for a lot of hunters is a very hard egg to crack. I do hunt both, but still spend more time on the crown land parcels.