Sounds like we have similar backgrounds. I grew up in the north woods of New York on the northern edge of the Adirondacks.
I always ran a trapline on foot back then and I just loved pushing a little farther back every trip. Had to see what the next ridge held or the next bend in the stream showed me.
I'm still the same today. Always checking out another ridge or draw or the next stretch of river.
I love to still hunt but will use other methods as the situation dictates. I'm not one to spend time in a stand though. I suppose I should stand hunt but it's tough for me to take that inactivity for long.
Everywhere I've lived I have always amassed a large collection of USGS maps and pore over them regularly. It's like reading the bible. You may have read the same passage many times but suddenly something jumps out at you that you never saw before.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
