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Old 02-26-2005 | 07:41 PM
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Default RE: Where to hunt in Northern Maine

To Main Guide I guess you misunderstood my comment about the road. I have hunted Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont paper company lands since the early 70s. All 3 states are the same with respect to the way hunters are able to access the land. I understand that the loggers own the road and we are only able to use them when they aren't. I can't tell you how many times I have been crawling along and then looked ahead and saw a fully loaded log truck bareling down on me. I always pull as far off the road as I can with my 4 wheel drive. Kind of adds to the exitement of hunting where most people don't dare to go. To liquidorange the Jackman area is on of the first areas that the Benoits focused on. True there aren't many tracks but that works in their favor. They cover large areas of land and when they find a suitable track they dog it down. They don't catch up with all of them but it is a numbers game and sooner or later they do score. The difference between them and most other hunters is that they don't waste their time on anything less than what they consider to be a shooter. I haven't been to the mid west and don't know what that is like. I doubt that there is the type of wilderness hunting that Maine offers. The mega racks in Illinois and Iowa aren't the same as the solitary bucks of the Great North Woods of Maine. Whole different deal. Drives me crazy to see the TV shows and the way they harvest those monster bucks in the mid states so easily. Takes so much time and effort to just see their tracks in Maine. Catching up to them is only after a lot of hard work and many miles and lots of luck. Oh and I almost forgot...Moosehornhunter have a really nice day.
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