WHOSE BUCK IS THIS?
When reading about deer hunting customs, results, rigors and techniques elsewhere in the country, you note vast differences in the way things are done elsewhere when compared to New England, where my wife and I have hunted all our lives.
For example, I only know a few hunters who know how to score a deer, and I don’t have the slightest idea of how to do it. In our woods, people weigh deer after field-dressing and count the antler points. The commonality between our customs and what deer hunters customarily do elsewhere is that we meat hunters appreciate the value and table fare of venison. The quest for venison in New England seems related to years ago, when there were no deer to hunt, except in Maine. You had to have one before you could taste one.
Having hunted for 70 years, I remember when you could spend an entire season hunting rabbits and grouse daily and never see a whitetail. The
