I just read that Larry Benoit died this past October. One of the great ones.

RIP Brother!!! He and his boys wrote the book on still hunting whitetails!

I grew up on the Vermont border and always looked forward to The Vermont Sportsman with Benoit stories! Thankfully we didn't have to wear orange then so most of my cohorts and I looked like a bunch of Benoit clones. That was before anyone had even heard of a treestand!

It takes special country to hunt like that one that doesn't have a lot of property lines.

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It takes special country to hunt like that one that doesn't have a lot of property lines.

There in lies the whole ball game. Having talked to hunters from most of the states, it is interesting to think about what it would be like to hunt deer in that manner, instead of the way it is done here over most of Texas.

I always enjoyed the stories of Mr.Benoit's hunts.

We hunted moose in Alberta on public "Crown" land, where our guide snow-tracked one til 3pm one day, then picked up the same tracks the next morning, my wife shot the moose at about 10 am. Can't do that in SE Pennsylvania! Larry Benoit is a deer tracking, and shooting, legend.

RIP LB.

30 million whitetail in the USA.....and getting harder to find a place to hunt them everyday.

I grew up hunting white tails like that.Thats the way everyone in Northern Wi and the UP hunted.There still is plenty of National Forest land in Wi. and the UP where motorized vehicles cant go,but everyone now is glued into their heated hunting shack.

I am from western Mass. Larry Benoit was a hero for for most of us that hunted Vermont and Maine. Two or three years ago one of my older brothers, my brother in law and I rode our motorcycles to Larry's house. He invited us in and treated us like family. He had just finished three or four knives that he was going to sell I wish that I had the cash with me that day to buy one. He lived in a very humble home. He was a great story teller. He will be missed by his family.

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Originally posted by OLBIKER:
I grew up hunting white tails like that.Thats the way everyone in Northern Wi and the UP hunted.There still is plenty of National Forest land in Wi. and the UP where motorized vehicles cant go,but everyone now is glued into their heated hunting shack.

Watching over their bait pile

I still can enjoy a good tracking session on some large block of public land, muzzle loader season is the best lots of times there is no one out and about.