Ok, here's your chance to pick the stand I hunt from this weekend. Since I can't seem to pick the right one to be in, I'm going to let you pick the spot. I'll post some arieal pictures and a topo of my property and give you a little information on each area and then you tell me where to sit.
The predicted winds are supposed be from the Northwest at 5-10 mph, temps in the low teens at night and 25-30 during the day. This is very hilly ground so the wind does tend to swirl and change directions quite often. Unless it's a strong steady wind it's really hard to predict where my scent will travel.
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Yellow is my property line.
#1. A creek crossing at the end of a point. The long skinny green field is NWSG (CRP). Right across the creek is a picked bean field. No kills here yet
#2. A ridge between a very steep, deep hollow and the hillside leading down to the CRP. Killed my doe in this area earlier this season.
#3. A 30 yard wide spot in my food plot with soy beans and brassicas planted in front of it. 1 buck and 3 does have been killed here.
#4. The bottom of a small creekbed the deer like to travel through. Scrapes and rubs here earlier. This is where I killed my buck in 2008 and also a doe that year.
#5. Large creek bottom with flowing water and many ridges dropping down into it here. Many scrapes and rubs here. 2 does have been killed here.
#6. Ground blind between standing soy beans and brassicas. A doe was killed from a stand in the North end of the field here.
#7. Trail around the head of a steep ravine leading from bedding are to food plot. 2 does have been killed here.
#8. Where point starts to drop off towards neighbors picked corn field. Also a bedding area. No kills here yet.
#9. Ridge above steep ravine, huge rubs here, bedding area. My first kill on the property was a doe from a stand here.
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3D view from the North
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3D view from the West
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3D view from the South
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3D view from the East
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Deer Beds from my first few scouting trips of the property.
The area with the highest concentration of beds is my designated sanctuary. I stay out of there unless I'm on a blood trail or shed hunting in the spring. It's a fairly brushy area with some points the deer like to bed on.
