Originally Posted by
spaniel
There is plenty of public land in southern Indiana in the form of Hoosier National Forest. Like most public land in the midwest, however, it's not somewhere to find big bucks in and decent numbers.
I live about 45 minutes from a stretch of the HNF and have hunted there a few times, there are scary big bucks in there, but you have to go in deep. The best way is to go into one of the parcels off SR37 south such as Lake Celina or Tipsaw Lake and get a fisherman to tote you across the lake, you'll have little or no competition, but bring a deer cart for the pack out. The terrain is hilly, fatboys need not apply. Patoka Lake is good for volume of deer, but to find the big boys you'll need a boat there too. I've seen a gazillion deer in a single day there, but no big boys, they hide in the places where lazy folks won't hunt.