Once the firearms season has started, where do you guys hunt to try to find the big bucks in the area? And how do you hunt them?

if you can find a place where nobody else is getting to to hunt, thats the place to be, the deer, especially big bucks are gonna seek out the gnarliest most rugged places to be to avoid hunting pressure.

Go to a spot whre you would look and say " man i would hate to drag a deer out of that crap" then go hunt in it and hopefully you will get the chance to see how tough it really would be!

That's exactly what I do. Over looking thickets (bedding areas) and know if you do take one it will be one heck of a day to get him out of there. But it works for me.

I go to the zoo and take some pics.

Where the big does are at.........

10-4 Cowboy4513!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats exactly what Ive been doing the last few days, of our rifle season,, Ive just been racking my brain to think of totally out of the way places where I know no one has gone all season, and each time I go out, I go to a different spot, trying to find that sweet place, and Im seeing unpressured deer every time, but just not the one Im looking for. Hopefully he will slip up during muzzleloader season.

Oh, and I actually did go to one of those places where you think you dont even want to drag one out of there.. It kept me from taking a borderline buck, If he was anywhere else I would have taken him, but decided he was just borderline on being a shooter, and was in a very deep and brushy valley, with no way of getting the 4 wheeler anywhere near him, and I know what its like to get one out of there, a few years ago, I shot one of my best bow bucks and he ran right into this spot, and dropped, and I had to have help to get him out of there..

You really have to go into areas that your average hunter isn't going to go. If you have to work your way thru swampy bogs around beaver dams or thru some thickets, so be it. I had to drag a 252 pond buck almost 2 miles and thru 2 beaver dams this year. I can tell you one thing when the work is over the beer will never taste quite as good!

hunt opposite of everyone else. if everyone enters and hunts on the north side, enter and hunt the south side. as soon as you hear the shots, prepare for the deer to look for somewhere to hide.

but other than that, hunt the thick stuff and the escape routes.