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ORIGINAL: shed33

Big timber country,combined with mountains creates some obstacles that any savvy whitetail bowhunter is going to recognize immediately, low deer densities, freaky winds that are inconsistent,theydo not cooperate with the local weather man, basically swirling 24/7. There is so much feed in my areathat deer can eat in any direction they choose, it's wet up here, the vegetation is always plentiful. The tracts of forest(public)reach out for100's of miles with no centralized food source insteadcyclic vegetations serve asa revolvingpreferred feed. Finally serious predation takes place in these mountainsand I say this because a buck gets an education with cougar and wolves on his track,enough that coyotes and bearsaren't even considered a serious predator of the whitetail deer in these parts.

Ag land is usually private andplays into the handfor whitetail bowhunters due to centralized preferred food sources,more predictablewinds, higher deer concentrations and structurethat dictates deer movement.

Mature bucks inboth big forestor AGget old for a reason, so if we are talking mature bucks..I think both are challenging, especially ab ole buck that moves mostly at night. Evenwith that being said I still feel that AG landlends itselfto thefavor of awhitetail bowhunter. I have hunted both successfully and really enjoy the far and few between times I get to travel out of state to hunt agricultural country like I have in Alberta and Montana.

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