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Where is the deer hunting capitol of the world? My vote is for Pike Co, IL. First season totals are in....2340 deer harvestedduring the first 3 days.....

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I've never hunted there, but Buffalo County, WI, is rather legendary...

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waushara county, wisconsin

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wisconsin period

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archery or gun?

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I believe Illinois

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I don't know but I saw at least 150 deer the first week of hunting in South Dakota last week. These are big mule deer and there were plenty of nice bucks. I took six big does which I just finished processing today. The deer population is at or near an all time high. There is no public land in the unit where I hunt and its all farm country. North Dakota has a hugh deer population as well but these are mostly whitetails in the easter part of the state with Muke deer out west and in the Badlands. The whitetail here in the east are much smaller that the Mule deer out west but there is an endless supply of them in the slews and shelterbelts.

Most of the racks I see in pictures on this sight are pretty small horn wise to what we see out here(Mule Deer) that is. Eastern SD has some hugh whitetails in the Glacier Lakes units. There is a lot of Bow hunting in Eastern SD. Almost none out west on the prairie as shots are usually quite long in comparison..

I have hunted a little for deer in Montana and Wyoming but it was a quite of number of years ago. There is quite a bit of public land in the west of SD and ND. This is BLM land and forest service land. Hunting in the Black Hills of western SD is really good right now as well. Thats mostly public land. Much of Western SD is tied up in leases. Hope this report helps someone out.

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I am from Illinois and in my opinion Illinois is overrated. Illinois has some nice bucks but so do all of the other midwestern states, not to mention Texas or those huge bucks in Canada. Those Pike County numbers are impressive for Illinois, but several other states feature counties with higher numbers during firearm season.

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There are too many deciding factors in the question. I would say Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinios, Maine not in that order. I would much rather hunt in Illi than Maine in the early winter. Ifhad my choice it would be Kansas or Wisconsin then Illinois.

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Buffalo County Wisconsin, where I hunt. This legendary place is amazing, you don't really know until you hunt it yourself.

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Alberta Canada !

dd

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YEP!

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If you guys are talking about big bucks you guys are forgetting about the Greene County area of Ohio. The beatty buck and the Jermaine buck were taken relatively close to each other. And Coshocton county killed 7799 deer last year. So I would say Ohio.

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I think they mean the most killed the first10 days!
For the monster bucks it has to be Canada!

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The Pike Co #'s are first season shotgun only. Second season starts Thursday. Does not includebowhunting #'s.

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As far as sheer numbers go, I would say WI with an average kill every year for the traditional 9 day hunt being 300,000+ animals. This year was no different with a recorded kill of 313.000 up 9000 from last year, AND the season in the CWD zones don't end until Jan 3rd. As far as the size of the bucks, there are big ones everywhere, but I would Buffalo County is a winner as well as Canada.

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Anybody from Iowa going to weigh in?

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what are some of the regulations in WI though, I know here in Illinois, you can only take 2 antlered deer no matter what, and i dont know if its even legal, but i dont know of anyone who has ever got a second either-sex permit for shotgun season....also Illinois has no rifle season. im just wondering.

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Polk County , Florida


just kidding:D

Missouri

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Not Indiana , we have no deer here and the hunting sucks . Stay away , don't waste your money coming here . Move along folks , nothing to see here ... :eek:[:-];)

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I hunt in Ottertail Co Minnesota. To me it the deer hunting capitol of the world. But I would guess that where the person hunts, to him or her that has to be the deer capitol of the world. There are factors to consider. Who you hunt and how much fun you have also. It isn't always how many deer or how many you shoot. To me it's just being in the great outdoors.

Hope the sun shines on your day and Big Eddy comes into your sights.

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Anywhere in Wisconsin!!!

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I'd say Pennsylvania - more hunters/sq. mile there than anywhere else on the globe. While PA may not have the quality of deer that exist elsewhere, we do have more hunters. In that regard, I'd say that Pennsylvania is the Hunting Capital of the World.

PA sells just about 1 Million hunting licenses of the 16.5 Million sold across the country. That's quite amazing, when you consider that we do not boast many P&Y or B&C entries paired with the fact that we only offer4 big game species to hunt. We have almost no non-resident license sales.

I don't think you guys from elsewhere can even begin to comprehend what big business hunting is in Pennsylvania. Apparently, merchandisers have taken notice, because there are Cabelas and Gander Mountain Stores popping up at record pace - and all of them are constantly jammed with customers.

Just look at this board, look where the posters are from, and you'll see that Pennsylvanians are generally very active in the hunting community.

In the 1970's and 80's, Pennsylvania sold more hunting licenses than any other state in the Union. Not by a narrow margin, either. (1. PA (1.9 Million) 2. Texas (1.45 Million)).

In 2002, PA still led the pack, but only beat TX by 25,000.
http://www.iafwa-awds.com/LicenseSales/Annual_Trends/fy_2002_license_trends.htm

So, there you have it - Pennsylvania - the Hunting Capital of the World.

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Not sure if this still stands, but I was told Buffalo County holds more record book
buck then any other county in any other state....

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iowa. go hawks.

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Sawer county WI is a public land hunters dream!!, few hunters, tons of land and big deer.

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There are so many places that I have not hunted yet that it is hard to answer but anywhere in south Texas would be hard to beat.

-john

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Deer Hunting Capital of the World. It would depend on what requirements,factorsand items to consider. But anywhere in the Midwest though, would be the region, without a doubt. The far East and West Coast doesn't have the "Quality" when compared to the midwest. The North doesn't have theQuantity of people or deer, when compared to the Midwest. And whether you personally agree or not, the fact is that too many people (nationally) despise or don't not like the style of the hunting in the south, to make it nationally un-popular, when comparing it to the Midwest. Overall, I'd say the Midwest region wins hands-down when comparing it to other regions of North America, as being the deer hunting capital of the World. Just my 2 cents

Now when comparing which Midwest State is the Deer Capital, then that is not quite as easy!:D

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i like wisconsin because here we have a lot less high fence whitetail hunts than texas, illinois, iowa...

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While there are high fences here in Texas the vast majority of the places are low fence.....

-john

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im going to sya PIKE COUONTY, IL. my home state and place where i hunt.

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I would love to hunt Buffalo County WI, S.E Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska or theMilk River in Montana. I have hunted Pike Co IL. for the last 11 years in a small town called Nebo. Now, I dont know if the boys here from IL will agree with me on this, but when I first started hunting there all I ever heardor read about was Pike Co this and Golden Triangle that, but they had the bucks to back it up. Now it seems like every ma and pa who has 100 acres or better of land is now an "outfitter"which means alot of this land which was previously hunted by only family members is now pounded week in and week out all season long by hunters. I guess what I am getting at is althought i still think Pike Co. is an exceptional place to hunt, I do not believe it is the same Pike Co. we all knew and heard about 10 years ago. That being said, I'll be getting my tag in July.