This past week the chasing has really picked up. I was hunting an oak flat and had a small buck run some does right through it and never checked up. The land I hunt doesn't really have travel corridors or funnels. It's mostly pine plantation and cutovers from 0-10 years old with some scattered oak flats. This particular tract is large, about 3000 acs. large and vast pine plantation stuff dotted with small oak flats. Acorns are on the ground and you would think it would be easy...it's not. they don't seem to use the same oaks everyday. and they can bed 360 degrees around any of the oak flats since they are surrounded by cutovers and pines..Should I just keep hunting these oak flats and cross my fingers or hunt the swamp slashes that are in the middle of this property?
Used to hunt a tract of land like that in southern Arkansas. 80 acres of oaks with thousands of acres of plantation pines in different stages of growth. Deer just bed down wherever they pleased. But if the acorns are a food source the does will come to eat and like the others said the bucks will follow. What I noticed was that even the area where the oaks were was very flat but there were very slight differences that were corridors the deer would travel mostly. One area had mostly white oaks and a small point that might have been a two foot drop. Sitting on that point brought more deer into range. I also found sitting close to the edges increased sightings. Keep the sun at your back.
Sort of. I have a stand that is money for me in the rut. Its in a travel corridor between two beds and close to a food source. Does prance through all day long... and bucks aren't far behind usually.
