Man it's dead around here. I'm of a mind to try to see if we can resurrect it at least the old group a bit. And since this is on the brain as I went to move a stand and high winds have a tree leaning on it, and that the large tree that I've used to bridge the mill race was moved by flooding the other night, I have some planning to do.
My property and scrub public land behind my place, across a small, but before the state road, adds up to all of 4 acres of woods and fields (surrounded by much more of same) in a fairly rural and wooded area.
I currently have 3 stands in that spacing. concentrated in really a 1 acre portion of it that's back off my house a ways, but not easily visible from the road. They're on 3 different banks of 2 creeks, but they're all set up for different wind, creek, and approaches. If I actually had 3 hunters in them, they could just about all make eye contact with each other. The more centrally located of the 3 I think I'm relocating all of 30 yards this year, and one may get pulled much closer to the house. That last is the most visible from the road in late fall, but normally traffic's whizzing by at 50mph. There's a bridge on a parallel road that's under construction, and with the detour they added a temporary traffic signal. I don't know how that's goign to affect the deer pattern itself, but it backs up far enough that people who used to be going by at speed are now often bored looking out the window at the creek. It's not the only place I hunt, but it is my convenient "i've got a couple of hours" location and as it's got good numbers of deer moving through, I like it a lot.
I'm bringing this up, partly to share, and partly because it's always amused me to picture a hunter coming across the set up just shaking their head.
The thing is though, with experience of hunting the same place for a few years in a row, you start to realize how they each make sense.
I still don't know if I can re-set that tree as a crossing.
Get ready gentlemen, the season is coming.
My property and scrub public land behind my place, across a small, but before the state road, adds up to all of 4 acres of woods and fields (surrounded by much more of same) in a fairly rural and wooded area.
I currently have 3 stands in that spacing. concentrated in really a 1 acre portion of it that's back off my house a ways, but not easily visible from the road. They're on 3 different banks of 2 creeks, but they're all set up for different wind, creek, and approaches. If I actually had 3 hunters in them, they could just about all make eye contact with each other. The more centrally located of the 3 I think I'm relocating all of 30 yards this year, and one may get pulled much closer to the house. That last is the most visible from the road in late fall, but normally traffic's whizzing by at 50mph. There's a bridge on a parallel road that's under construction, and with the detour they added a temporary traffic signal. I don't know how that's goign to affect the deer pattern itself, but it backs up far enough that people who used to be going by at speed are now often bored looking out the window at the creek. It's not the only place I hunt, but it is my convenient "i've got a couple of hours" location and as it's got good numbers of deer moving through, I like it a lot.
I'm bringing this up, partly to share, and partly because it's always amused me to picture a hunter coming across the set up just shaking their head.
The thing is though, with experience of hunting the same place for a few years in a row, you start to realize how they each make sense.
I still don't know if I can re-set that tree as a crossing.
Get ready gentlemen, the season is coming.
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