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Old 10-29-2008 | 09:56 AM
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The Outdoorsman
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ORIGINAL: The Outdoorsman

Just use your flashlight and pay attention, its the best advice I can give you. And you dont need to go but 150-200 yds in max. what area are you hunting, I might be able to help you on where to go. And remember, most unexploded ordiances you will be able to see. The biggest thing is that they dont want someone aimlessly walking around in there and not paying attention.
I've renamed Big Oaks to Big Jokes. Me and my buddy spent a total of 38 hours (combined) and saw just 1 deer, a little spike buck. On Saturday, we hunted area 13. We hung around until about 2am.

I have never, ever, ever hunted an area of woods as dead as this area. I saw no birds, no squirrels, no nothing.....not a single, living, air-breathing creature. On the way out we saw a guy sitting beside his truck and he had bagged a decent 10pt at 9am and was done for the day. He was just waiting on his buddy to finish his hunting. That was at area 58.

When we checked out on Saturday, we got moved to area 58 because he had told us some other guys that were hunting there were not coming back the next day.

We were in the woods from 7am to 7pm and saw just one deer, I had the spike run by me around 8:20 am. When we checked out Saturday at 7:45pm, they had 5 deer check in the entire day.

I know there are deer there and have heard about some monsters but I will not be applying there in the future.

Sorry to hear that, the place can be tough to hunt. My cousin reported the same thing you did, nothing seen basically. He is going on the youth hunt this weekend with his son. Big Oaks is a great place to hunt if you could actually scout it and didnt have to jump thru hoops to get in there and get an area. Area 58 is a good area, I've killed 2 respectable 8's in there and thats where my cousin killed his big one that is now ranked 8th in the state non-typical.
On a side note, word is there is a big deer running around in there somewhere and the DNR is keeping an eye on it to make sure he isnt poached. I dont know what area he has been seen in though. I dont doubt there are some monsters in there with the lack of hunting in there from what it used to be and those deer know where to run to, the impact areas to stay safe.
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