LAST EDITED ON Jan-25-11 AT 10:50AM (MST)[p]Ha! Just so you know, you're probably going to get two types of responses. 1) People who have been there and had sucess or live near there will say it's awful, you won't find anything. That's what we would all say if someone asked about hunting in our neck of the woods. 2) People who've never been there or have had limited sucess will say it's pretty good, or at least not bad.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but generally those seem to be the two most common responses whenever anyone asks about a specific unit or area.
Your best sucess will probably come from scouting and trial and error in your own area or at least your own state. It takes alot of time and work (and some luck) to have consistent sucess. Without knowledge of an area, how do you know where the best winter range is, how deep the snow is in January and February, whether the deer stay in pockets all winter long or move with the snow line, is there even snow this year, if not they could be on north slopes instead of south slopes, maybe there is a huge amount of good winter range and the deer only use a part of it or are extremely spread out, maybe there is very little good range and the deer are concentrated in that. So many variables that you cannot know unless you see the land at different times of year and in different years.
In my experience, blind hunts are not very sucessful. When I try a new place in my area (without any previous scouting) I have about a 1/10 sucess rate. Sometimes you get lucky and find a nice hole but most often you come up empty. It's worth it in the area you live in but not if you're going to spend alot of money on a big trip to an unkown area, in my opinion.
