Have hunted West-by-God for deer (and varmints) and have experienced exactly that. But it ain't that different from certain parts of Montana--including the nearby public-land WMA riverbottom.
Well, except for the occasional moose. But have run across fresh moose tracks in the Adirondacks....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
