If you read the title and aren't just aimlessly clicking, then you probably want to help me out (I hope). This is a 160 acre farm that has been in my family for a long while. None of my close family really are into hunting but I have been getting fairly addicted over the past 3-4 years. I hunted here for the first time last year and passed on a decent 3.5 year old and got pictures of some pretty good deer. Just trying to see what you educated folks might do different than me to start. The stand i hunted last year is the yellow dot. The stand I plan to hang this weekend is the green dot. Blue smudge is going to be a corn feeder (also this weekend). Pink dot is where I had pictures of big bucks travelling through last year during the pre-rut/rut. Gray squares were in corn last year, but due to rain will be in wheat this winter, being sown in 20 days or so. I'll attach a couple pictures of the biggest deer I had pics of... mostly just so this isn't a completely boring thread.
Wow, the maps turned out terrible. The new stand is just west of the blue dot. old stand just west of there. Had the camera just south of blue dot.
I really can't see anything on the maps... Some bigger pictures and I will do my best to give some advice.
I think they will be bigger now. I should also add that across the road (the west half) has 40 head of cattle on it so I havent tried hanging cameras over there for fear of having 735218 pictures of curious calves.
I would get some cameras on different areas of the farm, that will help figure out the travel patterns of the bucks your chasing. As many as you can afford to get out. I have an 80 acre lease and have 6 cameras on it, last year it helped me to pattern the biggest buck on the lease. I was getting pictures of him on almost every camera, so I looked at all the times from the different cameras and figured out he was entering on the south side and making a loop, then exiting on the west side. It took him about 15 minutes to get to each camera so I was confident in his travel patterns. One morning, he jumped the fence on the south side chasing a doe and I was able to get an arrow in him. I would never have hung a stand in the particular location if it wasn't for figuring out his patterns! Good luck
he is my advise,look for choke points, from your topographic maps .bedding to feeding areas.or watering holes.. largemouth bass use same techinque.only under water.or were three or more points come together. I dont use trail cameras. i just scout around. and have had great luck with this in mind.hope this helps you out.from a 58 year old hunter.buck-wishes don weddle p.s. i found a big persimmon tree deep in woods one year and killed nice buck and doe in 2 weeks coming to eat from it..... bow........
he is my advise,look for choke points, from your topographic maps .bedding to feeding areas.or watering holes.. largemouth bass use same techinque.only under water.or were three or more points come together. I dont use trail cameras. i just scout around. and have had great luck with this in mind.hope this helps you out.from a 58 year old hunter.buck-wishes don weddle
Thanks for the help. I guess I need to buy a few more cameras and do some better scouting. It's 4 hours from the house so I only get up there a few times a year. Hopefully I will have a little more time for food plots and what not next year.
Yea my property is about 4 1/2 hours away, I go up once a month during the non hunting months. Bring my laptop and put all the pictures on it and sort through them the next couple of days,
