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If you're out for the big bucks, and I mean the really big buck,
no area in the state produces more than the southern farming
counties and suburbia. Year after year the little woodlots
of Kent, Wayne, Washtenaw, and Oakland counties produce some of
the biggest bucks in the state.
Public land in these areas can be very sparse and where it
does exist, very over-hunted. It can also be difficult to
get permission to hunt private land in these areas, but it is
certainly worth the effort. But whatever you do, don't
trespass. It gives hunters a bad name and perpetuates the
"Bubba" image of hunters.
The last couple of years some very kind people have given me
permission to hunt a parcel of land in the suburbs of Oakland
County. I will get no more specific than this as there has
been trespass problems there as well.
While the action is not non-stop as it can be in upper
Michigan, the bucks are definitely bigger. The last two
years on this particular parcel, the shed rack of a 10 point
buck has been found but this buck has yet to be seen during the
season. Maybe this will be the year someone gets a shot at
that monster.
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