I'm going to play odd man out here....and without questioning any one else's judgment. But I would not sit around waiting through good cycles and bad up there.
Life has a way of sneaking by and there are a million things that pop up, conspiring to eat into hunting time.
A Canadian giant is a rare animal to get a shot at in good cycles and bad. Killing one is rarely accomplished in a single, carefully calculated trip no matter how desperately we wish it.The overwhelming majority who go up there will never even see one,let alone kill it.Killing a buck like the one in Buzz's photo is akin to hitting the lottery for a couple of million dollars.
Even in Canada,where there a lot more of those kinds of deer, there are still not a lot of them.
What gives you the best odds of success is not simply up-cycle deer numbers,but your personal investment in time and effort. You go there not to see bunches of deer but a single very special one that you can kill. You can stay home, waiting for better population cycles,but you can't kill one if you aren't there.
The most important thing is to simply go....be there...regardless of the cycles. Every hunt you make increases the odds that you will bump into one.
