On my first "Big Buck" Track, I meet the Benoits!

SEE PLAYLIST FOR FULL SERIES. For the first time ever I took four days by myself to head to the Western Mountains of Maine to hunt big whitetails by tracking in the snow. I've always wanted to try. I've watched all of the Benoit videos and read all of their books. I was the first hunter in after a the first snow of the year on Nov 27 and found a good track crossing a logging road and was thinking "what would Lanny Benoit say about this? How big is it? How fresh is it?" when lo and behold a maroon vehicle with Vermont plates comes round the bend and there is Lanny's pumpkin in the window! I did not get the deer, but had a fun time chasing him....

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• maine
• hunting
• snow
• tracking
• benoit
• aaron
• henderson
• deer
• whitetail
• track
• 2008

[sailredwings]

Yeah partly as where we hunt there are so few deer at all compared to many parts of the country. You really have to "hunt" well just to see any deer at all.

[sailredwings]

I took the track. I was the first one in that morning on the roads. I found great scrapes and rubbings as I tracked him but then lost him in a bedding area and followed out a large doe track. I did catch the doe 4 hrs later and could have taken her which was cool! The next day I came in from another angle and found his old track out of the bedding area. He never came back to the area or hooked up with the doe I tracked so I guess she was already bred.

[MisterWeatherby]

Cool!

[VTGunSnHunting]

@F350With460engine they arent very good hunters i had a buddy go with them one time and they shot a small 5 pointer and they didnt want to tag it and since my buddy wouldnt they told him to never come around again... alot of small deer are killed and not reported by these clowns

[F350With460engine]

Benoits are the def the best damn hunters in vermont and would easily give any other hunters in this country a run for their money.

[tomftbll6]

cool experience. im chewing right now for the record haha

[charlesbronsonsunit]

i noticed at the end you said you didn't chew were you talking about tabacco

[Theitalianway88]

thats awsome

[articatrider7]

where were you?

[fjd124]

That was cool to meet the Benoits. I would love to talk deer with them and pick their brains.

[WaterburyVTFF]

Hey is pretty cool to meet them im lucky enough to know them and i actually live about 1/8 of a mile from larry who is the father and i grew up knowing them