I know this site is all about hunting the lowcountry of SC, but I can’t help but cover a little bit of the hunting in Florida. So many of the people that hunt here are from down there… and of course I am from there too. I also know how hard it is to find a good place to hunt there as well as harvest anything, much less something good.

Therefore I am going to do a series of posts on the great hunting some of our members and friends have in the Sunshine State starting with my friend Mike. He hunts just outside of Gainsville (only 15 minutes from UofF, believe it or not) and has a great lease with lots of deer, hogs and turkeys. My friend Will and I even went down this spring to check it out and had an amazing time - I killed a nice Osceola and Will missed a good piney woods rooter - a future post for sure.

Mike is pictured here with a coyote he killed with his bow last week… a truly great accomplishment, and what a monster song dog! That should also help answer the question one of Moose’s readers had about if there are coyotes in Florida.

His other picture is with the great buck he killed on opening day of bow season last year. That buck is the smaller of the two (and facing away) in the trailcam shot. And while he did not kill it, he did get another shot of the big one later that fall. Now we want to see him this with this year’s rack!

Stay tuned, in my next “Great Hunting in Florida” post, I will have some neat trailcam photos of nice bucks, big bears and wiley coyotes from the Mickey Mouse state.

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