No I haven't hunted in Maine yet but will eventually. I do spend a good amount of time hunting big woods with similar deer densities. Sorry my last post might have been a little condescending, I didn't mean for it to be. It lights a fire under me when people say "that would never work here". I've been hearing that from old timers who hunt the same areas as me for as long as I've been hunting. "You'll never kill a deer trying to sneak up on them like that with a bow". Then I did. "Oh but you'll never get a big one that way". Then I did. "Oh but you got lucky". Then I did it again, and again, and again. A couple of these guys actually hate me for it and have gone as far as accusing me of poaching because they can't fathom a "new" hunter who hunts from the ground killing big old bucks in places they've been hunting for decades and probably never killed one as big. They confuse their own inabilities with impossibilities. Ok... Sorry... Rant over.Have you ever hunted northern Maine? No acorns, no ag, and a lot of it you can't see 20 ft in front of you much less walk through it. When you watch them hunting on public in states like Iowa, Kansas, Illinois etc. and they are seeing 20 to 30 deer a day and 2,3 or more big bucks a day that is just a fantasy in my state. I've been hunting for over 40 years in Maine and can count on one hand the amount of times I have seen 10 or more deer in a full day of hunting. It's not because I suck at hunting either. There has been several years that I have shot 4 or 5 deer in a season and I hunt almost exclusively with a bow. Also until about 10 or 12 years ago it was one and done in Maine regardless of weapon used. Some states are absolutely easier to be successful in or why else would they be top destinations for trophy deer.