Gives me claustrophobia just looking at it.

Here are a couple of small clearings where we put up stands.

Good place for a short light little rig like a Model 7.

You're right. And yet, I carry a 300 Weatherby Mag.

We do very well in archery. The property is tailor made for that type of hunting. Rifle is tough, but we still get a couple here and there.

What I call a thick brushy creek bottom (where my Mod 7 shines) you would probably call the wide open spaces.

A 300 WBY in that thick cover?
How much of the meat gets pre-cooked by the muzzle flash?

There are a few areas that are a little more open, but most of the game are in these thick areas. On the very edge of the mountain, you can get some further shots, because the loggers didn't get to those areas. But, my average rifle shot would probably be 20-40 yards.

If I can, I shoot my deer in the ribs so the Weatherby doesn't do too much damage. I haven't shot a deer with it in several years, though. All the deer in my freezer over the last 5 years have been taken by my son. I take him with me on almost every trip. If he still has a tag, he's up.

I've got kinfolks in Perry County, PA.
The places they hunt are wooded mountainsides with farm fields in the valleys. None of it looked that thick when I saw it. The woods are big hardwoods and the hot zone is the woods near the edges of the big fields. I haven't hunted it myself despite many invitations but they always kill plenty of big deer there.

I didn't see any areas of the real thick stuff like you describe.

That looks pretty thick.308.thats kind of like hunting northern saskatchewan.im not big into bear hunting myself but i know of many,baiting is the only realistic way to hunt them.rr has a great way to retrieve it if your not allowed to use an atv.

Most of it is because the land was clear cut about 20 years ago. The first 10 years were awesome. A tree stand on the edge and it was like hunting over a crop field. Then it grew up thick. The critters still love it. Food and cover in the same place. You should see all the rubs in there. Anywhere there is a clearing, it's dominated by blueberry bushes. Thicker still, but good food. The areas that are two rocky to have logged are all mountain laurel. That's awesome cover. We do have a few groves of mature hemlocks. You can see a good 50-75 yards in there, but deer and bear stay out of the more open areas until it gets dark.

When I was up in Canada, it reminded me of our place. Up there, they call it "The Bush". But it's the same stuff. Mostly black and white birch, beech, maple, hemlock and a few various other trees. All between 1 and 6 inches in diameter.

One benefit to the difficulty of hunting there - deer get old and big. If you find one, it could be the big pay-off.

Yup its called the bush,mostly pine spruce and tamarak.If your lucky enough to hunt a place that is only avialable to yourself or a small amount of hunters then yes,they get big and old,if you hunt public land then they get big old and smart.our natives in sask can hunt government land 24/7 365 days a year so many animals on public land get educated fast.