RE: How big is big?
 

We have 11 millon acres of it here in Idaho.. ALL BLM

RE: How big is big?
 

For me big woods hunting is when I go to the Adirondack mountains in NY ....you can walk public land for days...

RE: How big is big?
 

I consider big woods, well your place in Canada Dan.:D Im not aware of any big woods remotely close to me, All fields/woodlots.

RE: How big is big?
 

With true Big Woods, I think forests up north. Areas where a large chunk of timber means several miles in each direction. Around here in Kansas, we don't have true big woods. But if it's a 1/2mile of timber or more, it seems to get that name associated with it.;)

RE: How big is big?
 

I hunt backed up to a nationl forest that is over 1 million acres. The land that I hunt is unbroken for at least 10,000 acres. It's the kind of place you could get turned around and lost for a few days.

RE: How big is big?
 

I agree, the Shawnee National Forest where my families land is consists of approx. 265,000 + acres. I would consider that the very minimal of what would be considered "big woods".

RE: How big is big?
 

Any woods large enough that a deer could live his whole life in, and not venture outside of it.

RE: How big is big?
 

I've hunted big woods in MB for yrs. BIG is 100's of sq kilometers of it. when you stop measuring in acres and measuring in miles/kilometers then you have BIG woods.

RE: How big is big?
 

The places I hunt do not have any crop fields. When I posted earlier I said the area I hunted was "big woods" because there is nothing really to draw the deer into a pattern due to everything being so equal in terms of food availability. I truly believe if you walk a mile into the woods and hunt deer that live and roam for tens of thousands of acres, that you are hunting big woods. Maybe I am wrong, and guess one has to be Daniele Boone and hunting out in the middle of the artic circle to be considered hunting the "big boy woods".

RE: How big is big?
 

I consider big woods to be areas of woodsthat are very openan do not have any landmarks or fields for a considerable distance.