RE: Any northeasterners go west?
Go to E. Montana. Scott Sundheim has some great hunts as well as others along the Missouri or Yellowstone River. Milk River is all over TV but E. Montana has more deer and better archery cover. Look for an outfitter that has lots of riverbottoms to hunt.
3 years in a row and we saw 100's of deer each year with B&C & P&Y around all the time.
Trip of a lifetime.
30 yrs hunting in PA guy here