Overlooked hunts in the east

[FLAK]

Thinkin I'm gonna skip the Western Apps this year and make a few trips
back home to my Appalachian roots.

 

[Hoodie]

Everyone should hunt the big woods of Maine at least once.

I found this short film on Youtube a few months back. Had no clue guys hunted whitetails like this.

I like how basically everyone up there has the same green plaid wool and aperture sighted pump Remington. It's a cool hunting culture. Very different from how I grew up hunting whitetails in the South.

 

[bwidrick]

Snowshoe Hare in North country NY

And yes, as Billy Goat said, beagles help

That's how I & where grew up hunting. Loved it. Miss it dearly. In SE PA now.

As others have noted, Sika used to be a great experience...until this year.

 

[grfox92]

The Adirondacks is the largest tract if public ground in the country. 6 million acres.

People complain of low deer numbers. I started getting and interest the year before I move out of New York.

I did 1 overnight trip in the snow and deer tracks and sign seemed to be everywhere. I had limited time and was just puttering around so I didn't kill.

I always wanted to load my pack with all my gear and just disappear up there on a big track until I killed whatever was on the other end. Camp on the track at night and start again in the morning.

Lots of moose sign and during the summer I would catch a trout on just about every cast.

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[Rokwiia]

Yeah the ‘yotes around here are big and plentiful. It’s one thing we have over our Western compatriots, their coyotes look like big foxes by comparison.

Western coyote are small compared to the Eastern variety.

 

[ROJO23]

western KY whitetails. my in-laws owned a farm out there, and there are some monster bodied deer out there. Tons of turkeys, coyotes, and a few bobcats. I have killed a deer that dressed at 210lbs, and my father-inlaw killed one that dressed 237lbs.

 

[BAKPAKR]

I recently tried the mid-January Mountaineer Heritage hunt for deer and bear in West Virginia. You can use a percussion sidelock, a flintlock, a recurve, or a longbow. Since I don’t have a flintlock and you have to wear orange, I chose the sidelock percussion.

 

[Tradguy]

I found this short film on Youtube a few months back. Had no clue guys hunted whitetails like this.

I like how basically everyone up there has the same green plaid wool and aperture sighted pump Remington. It's a cool hunting culture. Very different from how I grew up hunting whitetails in the South.

Fantastic film! Thank you for sharing it.

 

[Southern Heritage]

What state is Bankhead in? I’ve never heard of it.


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It’s north west Alabama

 

[Chordeiles]

I’d like to try the PA flintlock season.
Meateater just did a podcast on it, so it will probably be overcrowded next year lol.

 

[bobinmi]

Porcupine mountains of Michigan have been in my head for a while. I'm fairly certain that I will be doing a solo trip up there this fall to bow hike.

 

[Southern Heritage]

Turkey hunting any where in the east is unlike anything i do out west turkey wise. Turkeys tend be more difficult but gobble alot harder.
I really like hunting Tennessee and Kentucky. However new York, Maine, Pensilvania have great numbers also.
I personally hunt west alabama in the swamps most of the season.

Georgia used to have good numbers on non resident gator tags I thought.

There also is decent black bear abilities on the east cost.
Lastly
We have the Ducks! Puddle ducks, sea ducks, diver ducks, geese
All fun options to change it up. Minus lizard hunting you dont have to stress of getting drawn and its all cheaper

Down side no pretty mountains with massive Meadows to glass all day, high pressure on public, not as much public


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[Tradguy]

Turkey hunting any where in the east is unlike anything i do out west turkey wise. Turkeys tend be more difficult but gobble alot harder.
I really like hunting Tennessee and Kentucky. However new York, Maine, Pensilvania have great numbers also.
I personally hunt west alabama in the swamps most of the season.

Georgia used to have good numbers on non resident gator tags I thought.

There also is decent black bear abilities on the east cost.
Lastly
We have the Ducks! Puddle ducks, sea ducks, diver ducks, geese
All fun options to change it up. Minus lizard hunting you dont have to stress of getting drawn and its all cheaper

Down side no pretty mountains with massive Meadows to glass all day, high pressure on public, not as much public


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Those duck hunting opportunities will get me to the east coast one of these days. Sea duck hunting is bucket list for sure.

 

[mcfd45]

Porcupine mountains of Michigan have been in my head for a while. I'm fairly certain that I will be doing a solo trip up there this fall to bow hike.

Not a lot of deer in the UP. Cold and wolves have done them in. I would look at other parts of the state. The northern lower has good numbers.

 

[Mattfr17]

geese

 

[bobinmi]

Not a lot of deer in the UP. Cold and wolves have done them in. I would look at other parts of the state. The northern lower has good numbers.

I've already got access to a farm north of Grand Rapids. This would be more for the adventure than possibility of success. I can basically fill as many doe tags as I can get at the farm.

 

[mcfd45]

I've already got access to a farm north of Grand Rapids. This would be more for the adventure than possibility of success. I can basically fill as many doe tags as I can get at the farm.

Hell yea. Go for it.
i generally hunt in SE MI. I want to get a few friends to go with me to the northern lower and wall tent it during gun season.
not a lot of takers.

 

[Brendan]

I found this short film on Youtube a few months back. Had no clue guys hunted whitetails like this.

I like how basically everyone up there has the same green plaid wool and aperture sighted pump Remington. It's a cool hunting culture. Very different from how I grew up hunting whitetails in the South.

I've spent a lot of time hunting areas like this, one of the things I love about Maine/NH/VT, still haven't killed a buck by tracking though.

They've got a podcast and some other films:

Big Woods Bucks: Tracking & Stalking White-tailed Deer & More!

Learn how to successfully track your whitetail deer by following our blog.

www.bigwoodsbucks.com

 

[satchamo]

I love traveling for the western hunts but they will never ever overcome my obsession of whitetails. So is it a trip? No - but I will be climbing trees far longer than I’m climbing mountains and I’m totally content with that.

 

[Fitzwho]

Arkansas for sure.

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A houseboat based deer/bear hunt on Lake Ouachita is on my list. Doing the houseboat part this September, but prior to the hunting seasons so I guess a striper trip is in order instead.