If you could travel to one state this fall for whitetails what would it be? I would go to Ohio.
Any Midwest state for me.
I am going home to hunt them in Tennessee! Next choice on my list would probably be Anticosti Island.(Even though it's not a state)
I'd follow you there BUCKY. Ohio X2. rat'
One of these years I'll make it out to Nebraska for a deer hunt.
-Jeremy :coffee:
Kentucky, hands down!! Western part of the state during the early velvet season! :bigsmyl: ? I've got some good stuff to trade!!! :biglaugh: !
Iowa
Texas Hogs
I'm try'n Missouri this year!! Hunting a friends farm and I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Montana for me. I miss it.
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Kentucky, hands down!! Western part of the state during the early velvet season! :bigsmyl: ? I've got some good stuff to trade!!! :biglaugh: !
I'd stay home here in Kentucky!!! Not the western part either! I guess if I HAD to go somewhere else it would be west Texas just for the change of scenery and the hogs and javelina.
I dunno, I hear Kansas has some pretty decent sized whitetail. Wouldn't mind giving that a try.
Iowa. Used to see them all the time at when we visited my cousins farm. Those white tail make our blacktail look like fawns.
Alaska!... lived there for 25yrs and its hard to beat for blacktails.
Western Kentucky
IOWA
I haven't traveled as much as I could. I just have a hard time passing up what I know in NY... ill be a few exits from knawbone come Oct 1 2013 for 6 weeks lol
I lived in Missouri for about a year, and they have a very healthy population of deer. And, lots of big racks.
I was raised in Ohio, and hunted there for many years, and taken my fair share of deer there. Missouri has Ohio beat by a long shot.
I now live in Kansas, and there are plenty of deer here also.
I would say Wyoming. The best whitetail hunting Ive ever experienced. Ohio second or third after reading Woody303 post. Missouri does sound interesting.
Kansas, or maybe Kansas.
Montana river bottoms are simply other worldly. Apologies to Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri,etc. The assumption was you were asking about THE VERY BEST and not the most convenient.
Iowa would be my first choice. Lots of other good ones though.
Montana
God bless you all, Steve
I really don't like to travel and hunt that's why I moved where I am. If I change my mind I'm less than 350 miles from about 16 states and under two hours from Mo., Tenn., under 1hr from In., 20min. to Ky.
Texas
Have to throw a plug in for northern Wis.I go every year.
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I'm try'n Missouri this year!! Hunting a friends farm and I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Missouri is a crazy good state for deer especially from mid-state north. Many parts of the state allow unlimited doe tags
What part of state and when you going
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QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
I'm try'n Missouri this year!! Hunting a friends farm and I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Missouri is a crazy good state for deer especially from mid-state north. Many parts of the state allow unlimited doe tags
What part of state and when you going [/b]
Shelby Co. Northeast part of the state.
KS
Ohio
I know it sounds crazy but California.... Tule, Roosevelt, Rocky Mountain Elk.... Blacktail and Mule Deer...... Antelope, Desert Bighorn... Bears and a Cornucopia of small game and birds.
California is probably the most diverse state in the country when it comes to terrain, deserts, mountains, rain forests, agriculture and coastal hills. With the way people are leaving the state I may end up with the place all to myself
:biglaugh:
Looks like I am good where I am lol. Now if I could get extra vacation time to actually take advantage of it :banghead:
Virginia and MD have been good to me ... MD is unlimited does, and VA has a 6 deer bag limit ... but I miss the Adirondacks or Catskills back in NY. You're not going to find more wilderness and a bigger challenge in the East IMO.
Where else can you find a MILLION ACRES of wilderness area where you can't even ride a bicycle or use a deer cart and another nearly 2 million of other state lands. This is serious country. 2000 miles of trails, 3000 lakes, 30,000 miles of streams and rivers.
Iowa for me hands down!!!
New York any where you can pick and choose your terrain and Challenge level(wilderness, farmland, suburban etc) its all here. Lots of trophy bucks if that's your bag but they usually don't come easy. Millions of acres of public land, not always where you want to hunt but its there for your use. No need for me to leave the state to hunt its right out side my door.
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I know it sounds crazy but California.... Tule, Roosevelt, Rocky Mountain Elk.... Blacktail and Mule Deer...... Antelope, Desert Bighorn... Bears and a Cornucopia of small game and birds.
California is probably the most diverse state in the country when it comes to terrain, deserts, mountains, rain forests, agriculture and coastal hills. With the way people are leaving the state I may end up with the place all to myself
:biglaugh:
Not completely alone. I'm not moving. I do wish the archery deer seasons weren't so damn hot though.
Montana.....
Missouri to hunt with my best friend
I would hunt that northern state known as Alberta, Canada
Might rub some guys the wrong way but I can care less about horns on the wall. Sure I like to shoot a "shooter" but I just like to hunt and want a big bag limit and a long season. Alabama and Georgia fit that bill and when the deer are not giving you an opportunity, hogs or small game might. And it's warm. I like warm.
Bout 200 yards out the back door will be fine for me....RC
Montana
Right where I live. ALABAMA!
ROLL TIDE!
Randy.
Anywhere but here in PA.
Since th OP said whitetail, with no doubt I would hunt the Golden Triangle of South Texas. You guys can have the rest of the country.
If your talking deer,both Whitetails and Muledeer ,I wouldn't trade all of them together for Saskatchewan.More huge deer hit the dirt without ever being recorded.For all other big game,Albertas No.1
Hunting in both these provinces offers unlimited diversity ,it has to be experienced to truly believe it.
I think Kansas,they have some huge ones and i wouldnt care if i got one or not, just seeing them would be a thrill.But, the mississippi tombigbee river bottoms with soybean fields grows some huge ones too and im already familier with that area as i grew up there.I was deer hunting there before deer hunting was cool in that area.Back then the big thing was quail hunting.
A funny thing,,when i lived in Ms i ran a meat processing plant and Bill Jourdan(sp) of realtree, who at that time as i remember just ran a pulpwood buisness, brought in a buck to be processed and i caped the head out for him to be mounted.The way i remember it, it scored to be the state record at that time.The buck itself was not a real big one body size but the rack was so big that it almost looked like a freak with that set of horns on it.It was the most awsome set of horns i have ever seen and i have seen plenty of monsters. Never heard if it actually made the state record or not.Now he is a big time hunting show dude with a well known hunting clothes buisness from a small backwoods town.
I don't know. It is always fun seeing different country. I could go pretty much anywhere and see more deer, so I think the west like Montana or Wyoming to see a totally different landscape to the thick tight woods of Maine.
Right here in Bama. I killed a 6 point 200 yards away from my LazyBoy. I can literally start a stalk where my yard ends and have a chance at killing a deer or any number of small game.
cahaba,we have plenty of deer too, i have stands just outside of my yard and they keep a path wore out from going by.But the clubs all around here bring in feed litterally by the truck load and it has caused the deer to become completely nocturnal.You can sit in stands or anywhere you want all season and you would be lucky to see two deer the whole season.Most of the clubs close by are ran by doctors,lawyers and such and the wardens pretty much will not bother them about it even though they are aware of whats going on.
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Alaska!... lived there for 25yrs and its hard to beat.
HHmmmmm.....didn't know there were whitetails in Alaska. :knothead:
As for me, I'll stay right here in my own state of KY for whitetail hunting.
If I had to choose another state for whitetail, I guess I would like to try Iowa or Illinois.
whitetails alone......Saskatchewan or Iowa.
for variety of game I will stay here in SC...generous bags and seasons, diversity in game animals, etc. For example in Lowcountry and my area...season is 15 Aug- 1 Jan with no break...unlimited bucks on private property, 6 does available. turkey, hog, alligator, small game, upland birds, bear (Horry Cty and Upstate), coyote, etc...
if state politics, cost of living, and friendliness to hunters was not part of equation.....I think Vermont, Maine, northern Idaho and Colorado.
Alaska!
If I could hunt any state? It wouldn't be for white tails, I'd want to shoot some gators. For white tails ill stay in Canada I'm afraid but any or the northern states will have some dandy whitetails for sure.
Alberta!! :notworthy:
Illinois, or may just stay home, here in KY. God bless.
Any place that has a 1 buck tag limit and a gun season after the rut.
how about Georgia? deer,turkeys,bear,hogs,gators, coyotes and small game. the limit on deer is 12 per year. Mountains in the north, swamps in the south, and plenty of farmland. North Georgia is one of the few places where bear hunting is still spot and stalk with no dogs or bait.
Any State that has more deer than Jersey. :smileystooges: :saywhat: Unlimited does, all the permits and seasons etc. etc. :banghead: BUCKY when we going to OHIO!!??
Western PA to hunt with my family
I like it right here in Florida. Ninety nine percent of my hunting is done on public land... hard hunting, long walks, canoe trips or bike rides...whatever it takes to get back to the good spots. I love the cypress swamps, myrtle flats, oak hammoks and pine flat woods.
There's no place like home! :archer:
North Dakota, where I live.
Kansas, since that's where I live...
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Since I can only pick one I think I'll just stick with Missouri.
God bless,Mudd
I would love to hunt Saskatchewan
Iowa in 2015. Bought my points this yr, can't wait.
Jersey.... :scared:
I really enjoy hunting here in IA. But, I would like to try Kansas or Wyoming.
Montana
For whitetail I will stay in Kansas other big game I think Saskatchewan would be my bet
Kansas than Iowa would be a close and I mean very close second, than Ohio. I think Indiana is a sleeper for sure!! Shawn
Glad that someone said Northern Wisconsin. I was starting to think that I might have to move.
I'd go to Tiffanie's place in Iowa.
OREGON. I moved here to this rural farming community for the hunting and fishing ( and surf). There are giant elk I can scout from my back porch. And blacktail raid my apple and plum trees all summer and fall. The turkey and grouse are fairly thick as well. Salmon and steelhead in the front yard.
I have some of the best hunting in the country right here but would like to get back up to the Moosehead lake region of Maine to go after a big brute whitetail.
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OREGON. I moved here to this rural farming community for the hunting and fishing ( and surf). There are giant elk I can scout from my back porch. And blacktail raid my apple and plum trees all summer and fall. The turkey and grouse are fairly thick as well. Salmon and steelhead in the front yard.
you are legal to hunt this coming year, correct? Good luck John.
I'm very happy in New York.
Very interesting to see a variance of folks who would travel for bigger and more plentiful deer and folks who just want to see what lies beyond the horizon. Between those two options Im split down the middle, nothing as exciting as hunting fresh country even though I can now hunt burbs bucks out my back door.
Right here at home in Missouri
Sure is nice to see how many different places folks want to live and hunt. If we all wanted to be in the same place we'd be bumping into each other! :biglaugh:
I can't understand this - no one mentioned Colorado for elk, but during the season our forests and campground are full of out of state hunters. Looks like I will have the forest to myself this year as everyone is going somewhere else. HURRAY
Like the OP suggests, if I was to hunt Whitetail deer...it would be Kansas so i could meet and hang out with Tracy (K.S.Trapper).
Otherwise Oregon suits me just fine since I can hunt elk and blacktail deer out my backdoor each and every year.
I love my fall hunting here in New York, but I wouldn't mind matching my Deer knowledge against some brute Iowa Whitetails or some western Mule deer.Almost any two year old or older Buck is a trophy in my neck of the woods. These Deer have to be smart and cunning to survive.Just wish they sported larger racks on average.
Last year would have said Ohio,this year we will have a muzzleloading season in oct.