well what you think of maine as being big woods is a generlization. some will tell you the good deer hunting is in the farm lands in the southern parts of the state. that type of hunting isint much different than what you would hunt in most big whitetail states. now if your talking tracking big deer in the snow in the northern big woods of maine thats a whole different species.check some books out by the berniers of maine.ive hunted maine and it is a tuff cold hunt. if your use to seeing alot of deer dont even think of hunting there.