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RE: What state do you think?

I' d say Maine has got to be one of the best if not the best.21% of total buck harvest is 4 1/2-15 1/2 years old and considered mature.Thats almost 1 out of every 4 and is excellant odds for hunters to take a mature whitetail.

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RE: What state do you think?

Traitor Nick!:D Being that myself and my buddy have seen mature bucks in northern Wi (national forest) every year for the last 25 years I' d say Wi has to rank right up there.

RE: What state do you think?

In PA there are 10 million acres open to public hunting[:-]..............oh you said mature deer. We have mature deer, except there just aren' t many mature BUCKS

RE: What state do you think?

Sask or Manitob;) we can' t forget our neighbors:)

RE: What state do you think?

Thanks 121553, I would tend to agree;):D. As you are probably aware Saskatchewan does have a reputation of producing some pretty nice whitetails, what you may not know is a good number of those deer come off public land or crown land as we call up here[:o]. Almost all of the outfitting in Sask. takes place on crown land, with the only execption being Indian Reserves. The northern part (known as the Forest Fringe and Provinicial Forest areas) of this province provides a very good opportunity to harvest mature bucks, limited pressure, remote location and hard hunting-make these deer see very few humans and even less bullets/arrows.

Even in the farmland a large portion of hunting is done on Crown Land by resident hunters(moslty PFRA - Pastures, which are large tracks of bush areas with natural habitat, grazing and crop or hay land surrounding them). These PFRA-pastures all seem to have loads of dense bush, rolling hills and provide great escape routes and cover for the deer to grow big and wise. Access to private land for a lot of hunters is a very hard egg to crack. I do hunt both, but still spend more time on the crown land parcels.

RE: What state do you think?

All right you canadian dudes we havent gotten around to working on creating states out of canada yet!! we are to busy roughing up iraq and korea.
But we may plan to annex canada soon! what you got to do is start a nuclear program! :D

and as far as the question i will say not in arkansas!!!;):D

RE: What state do you think?

There is so much public land in Michigan, it' s a no brainer