[aroostookbasser]

Big deer are hard critters to kill........
You need to forget the field deer tactics and think like a swamp buck. Big deer in the north woods don't expose themselves to fields or big cuts. they feed and sleep and mate in cover. Use the does to find the travel lanes...watch the cover areas and wait in ambush. Grunt calls pull bucks and bleats make them curious for does. Use real and false scrapes to time the periods of movement "your" buck is using. Trail Timers are great....place them "to" and "from" to time the movements.

 

[aroostookbasser]

My best deer ever was a nocturnal Moosy-Horn,down in Crystal Station, near Patten. You couldn't get near him stalking.....he'ld snort and scoot before you can even see him in that cedar and Spruce tangle. I found a saddle he had crossed...going from the thick and nasty stuff......to a two year old cut he was feeding in and tracking does through. That's how I got my shot......that and a scentlock suit and rubber boots.