Bocajnala - where we hunt it is very thick. A couple thousand acres where we hunt was clear cut about 20 years ago. It is so thick that visibility is virtually nill in many places. The places it wasn't cut are swamps, thick hemlocks, blueberry thickets and the cliff edges.

This is great habitat for deer. But it's lousy habitat for finding them as a hunter. We see tons of deer in the fields at night and in people's backyards at night. But, in the woods in the day time, we see very few deer.

The exception is archery, where we see tons of deer in the fields and on the edge of logging roads. But these are usually doe and young bucks. The big boys don't start showing until around Halloween.

I wish one of those big shot TV hunters would come up to my camp and show me how to hunt these bucks.