VT has the worst deer hunting I've personally ever seen. The tree huggers are abundant, if your not wearing birkenstocks year round and driving a subaru with a starbucks frappacino in the cup holder, you will be the weirdo in town. Seriously, most of New England is like this and I absolutely hate it and would never consider it an option to live again.

I grew up in Vermont and it honestly isn't the state it was when I was a kid. When I was younger it was a beautiful state with a lot of farms, big mountains,some of the best scenery you could ever hope for, and good country oriented Vermont natives were the majority of the population. When I go back to visit family now, (my mother and sister still live there) it makes me sick to see housing developments on the farms I grew up hiking and hunting. Literally every single farm I knew of in a 10 square mile as a kid has gone under. The majority of the population is now trust fund types, and retired folks from downstate NY and NJ and it has driven the cost of housing up tremendously. Taxes are high as well, but not quite as high as NY. You better have a 150k per year houshold income if you want to own a normal house, and the job market there is pitiful unless you work in real estate, or your a doctor/lawyer.

They do have antler restrictions in VT now, however unless they start cutting trees in the state property (tree huggers won't hear of it) it won't help. The habitat won't support a good deer herd, everything is either soft wood type forests, or non mast producing hardwoods........and all of it is mature enough so that there is not much browse at ground level. I'm only 1 hour from the VT border and have access to thousands of acres of private property there but honestly won't spend the $$$$ to hunt it, I'd rather drive 4 hours to hunt PA.

That about sums it up...........[8D]

The trout fishing is fantastic though, probably the best in the entire northeast, especially if your willing to hike. There are places you can hike to and find native trout that have never seen a fisherman, fly, or lure.