I was reading a post Terry put up and he mentioned something about people not posting pictures on hunting areas and asking for advice. So I thought what the heck I'll try it.
Here is my favorite place to hunt. It's not even a mile from my back door. Every morning I drink coffee and look at this land. I just plain love it there.
Anyways, inside the red box is what I can hunt. I marked what the fields are going to be next year, the yellow "X" is where my treestand is right now, the maroon box is dense trees and does have a few acorn trees, I marked the pond, the neon green is three wire barbed wire fences, and finally I marked in yellow around a farmstead. To the right of the maroon is an out crop of rocks. It rises into an open pasture. There are evergreen trees up against the rocks. Let me know if you want to know anything else about the land. Thanks!
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Here is a close up of the Maroon part and the area of my treestand. The neon green is a cattle fence and the red is pickup trail.
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Close up of the pond area. Again with the fences and the long red line is a county road.
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Personally I like corners. The one at six o'clock near the yellow box is for me. Got corn; got a corner; got dense forest at five o'clock from the corner. This is a great post....about to learn something from everyone :) :thumbsup:
Depending on the wind, right off the top left corner of the box around the dense trees is where I would be. If the wind is wrong you might swing around to the other side of that corner.
Coner structure and a great pinch point for cover. Looks like a good spot.
One question from me...where do you want me to put my stand?
Honestly, do you have several stands put in or just the one? I'd have one at several areas on this layout for wind and also changing up so you are not patterned.
Sorry Jon but I'd have to see it in person to provide you with that info. How about I meet you there on November 1st at 12:00 noon? I'll bring my bow and tree stand! :thumbsup:
Just how much time do you think you'll have to hunt next year? :thumbsup:
Depending on the wind of coarse, but I like your location, but I would also investigate the following potential alternate stands:
1) In the wooded finger northeast of your stand along the corn field.
2) Just northwest of the dense woods near the corn field edge.
3) The inside finger on the northern part of the corn field
4) Finally I'd have a mobile loc-on with climbing sticks in case I found that super hot oak tree in the dense woods.
Snake could you put where north is in conjunction wiht map. Also why did you pick that spot to hunt? Have you seen good track numbers around pond?
Early season close to the pond, and mid season on between the maroon box and the corn field.Late season in the maroon box.JMHO
Thanks guys! If you want to see a curtain area closer I can put another picture up if needed.
I just started hunting from a stand again this November so I do only have the one up right now.
cbCrow- Why did I pick the spot as a whole or my stand location? As a whole because it has very good deer numbers and only three people hunt it myself included.
Tim- You know your welcome to come hunt with me anything! These deer like to bed back in some tall grass in the SE corner of the map and then come down and enter into the SE corner of the "forest" (as I call it) or sometimes they keep heading west and end up were my stand is.
Thanks for the input everybody! I really do appreciate it! :notworthy: :campfire:
Not knowing what kind of trees/forest, prevailing winds, trail systems, etc. I would use an area that is a funnel from bedding to food, covered by farm yard sounds and has a holding area.
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by the way nice spot.
Tim
MY THOUGHT EXACTLY ^
I'd want to sit in the little "tongue" that juts out in the cornfield just NE of where you stand is now.... I've found deer often like those little juts of woods to enter fields... and I concur with any of the corners... hard to beat an inside corner if you can get the wind right...
Jonathan
QuoteOriginally posted by Hummer3T:
Not knowing what kind of trees/forest, prevailing winds, trail systems, etc. I would use an area that is a funnel from bedding to food, covered by farm yard sounds and has a holding area.
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by the way nice spot.
Tim
that was where i was gonna put my stand ! danggitt! :bigsmyl:
Just based on your pics I would be right there with Jeff Strubberg.
Am I correct in assuming that the only reason there are trees in those meandering strips is that there are creeks there and they cant be plowed?
If that is the case, I would look for where they are crossing the creeks...particularly the one just to the west of the red box/dense cover. If they have limited places to cross, and those places are already in the funnels, then you have a funnel within a funnel!
Scott
Your real close to were I would set up( by just looking at the map) right on the end of that finger of woods jetting into the corn. Bucks love to travel threw such fingers,and the corn is cover also. Also on the outer bend of woods SE of the pond. Especially if its a real dry year, as they may work there toward evening. :thumbsup:
Thanks a lot everybody! I've hunted this place for so long I just get to narrow minded. I go by where I've seen deer in the past rather than getting out and finding what they are doing this year and that time of the year. Keep em coming! :wavey:
QuoteOriginally posted by Hummer3T:
Not knowing what kind of trees/forest, prevailing winds, trail systems, etc. I would use an area that is a funnel from bedding to food, covered by farm yard sounds and has a holding area.
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by the way nice spot.
Tim
The first spot that I thought immediately before even reading, pinch-points are a great spot. Not the only spot though, listen to what others have to say. Beautiful land my friend.
You have 1 stand on this nice chunk of property! Looks like a lot of great opportunities to play wind, play off different crops, pond/water, farm noise/smell as cover, and travel corridors.
Seems like travel paths would play a big part, so that road from farm is a great way to get to stand. Depending on morning/afternoon and wind, you could find where they are bedding in that timber stand and hunt the edge of that.
I hear what people are saying on that pinch point and its a good one, but not all deer in all areas will move in daylight in the narrowest wooded corridor. Depending on time of year, may have better luck catching them sneaking back towards the woods in SE area in morning or staging in that area.
Oh, and I really like your post! Google Earth is your friend. Also like using Flash Earth (it has different maps).
Jonathan PM on the way
Funnels and corners are always worth checking. Hummer's spot looks good. Just by looking at the pic, I'm gonna start at the corner of the strip and maroon dense wood block south of the yellow block. Would have to look close a the road to see if anything (and where) was crossing from your stand strip and the dense woods. Now is the best time to go looking.
I might tie two strand of Barbed Wire together just west of the dense trees. I still think that I'd also like to set up in the woods on the north little finger off the corn. From there you can narrow down them going to corn, 2 milo fields and one alfalfa field and hone in on them. If they are like deer in my area, they won't pass in daylight in that restrictive of a pinch point at the end of the fence
I agree with Jeff and Bill.That would be my 1st choice,right at the left corner of the green "u".
Where are you parking or entering the property from ?
I did not read all the other post. But what is that a road or trail that connects the alpha and corn field on the eastern side of the corn field?
I would look for a good tree there in that opening. for one stand location.
If your part of KS is like mine the prevailing winds blow from the south in early season then around Oct sometime they change to and blow from the north.
Also I would try and see what the deer are doing in early season but sheds and trails found in this last snow might tell you where to go during late season.
Heck I would have a couple of stands up if it was me.
But I like that little gap.
QuoteOriginally posted by waknstak IL:
Where are you parking or entering the property from ?
If I hunt the dense woods I park at the farm house because the farmer is always driving in and out. If I hunt my tree stand I park on the county road NW of the stand.
Also I only have one stand on this property because I just started hunting from stands again this November. Thanks again everybody!
I would place a stand near the pond. My other stand would be placed on the edge of the dense woods to catch any deer coming out early in the morning or coming in late in the afternoon.
Kelly- That is a cattle trail.
Cattle is the other factor that decides where I hunt on that property.
Lots of good places, pinch points, food sources everywhere.
After these ideas, on the ground survey to determine trails and usage. More than one stand for sure.
You the only one hunting here?
Since there's cattle, if you ever feel "busted", try giving your best moo cow sound. Be best not to be too close, of course.
Thanks for all the tips! I'm going to go stump shoot that area tomorrow and look for the best used trails.
Hopewell Tom- I plan on putting three or four stands up this summer now that I'm hanging stands again. The only people that hunt the property is the owner, my little bro, and myself. The owner doesn't archery hunt so he's not hunting it very often.
This was so much fun I might just have to do it again with another piece of property! :notworthy: But really I do appreciate you guys taking the time to help me out! :campfire: