I you are looking for a trophy deer, look for the steepest, roughest, thickest area, as far away from a road that you can find. Hunt there. You might need to hire a helicopter to fly your deer out when you kill one, but that's where the big bucks live up here.
Forget hunting a food plot. As far as I know none have even been planted this year. I used to bow hunt some of the food plots in Jan. on the off weekends when nobody else was around and see a lot of deer, but they are useless for the gun hunts.
The DCNR kill reports are a joke. The checking stations are not even open for the buck only hunts.Even on the either sex hunts, I doubt 1/3 of the deer actually get checked in. We always check ours in if they are open, but I know a lot of poeple don't. I always wonder how they come up with a kill number that is even remotely accurate.
Good luck !
