How often do you rotate properties to hunt on?

Currently i have 4 properties to hunt on.
One is 20 acres surronded by 400 acres of state forrest. which sometime there can be up to 3 hunters in the area
One is 30 acres
One is 120 acres of farm land With a slim chance of no one but myself and friend on.
The other is a familys back yard with some shallow woods.( But this is where i see the most deer. strange )

What do you fellas do with multiple properties? Do you spend a week on one , then a week on another etc?

One day here one day there.
Is there such a thing about ruining your welcome on one certain property?

Thoughts?

Thanks

 

I wish I had that choice. I only have 1 spot, and it is only about 15 acres.

 

I have several differnt properties available to me to hunt. I save the piece that I feel will offer the best rut hunting for later Oct through Nov. I have a couple other spots that are more suited to early season hunting so I hit them in Sept and first part of Oct.

 

Loaded question. I think it depends on the activity, deer numbers, pressure, weather, etc of each property.

Some properties, or stands even, you can get away with hunting with frequency, others I'd wait only until everything is perfect.

Sorry for the non-answer, but it think it is the right one

 

I agree. Well said !

 

I usually hunt whichever one I feel gives me the best chance at getting a deer under the circumstances available.
Sometimes I hunt certain places because they are close & easy and I am short on time. Sometimes I just need to look at different scenery too.

 

Agreed!!

 

I had 2 properties last year that I had access to and this year I will have 3. For me last year it really depended on conditions, I had more trail camera photos on a property in another county in the evening so I hunted that property exclusively in the evening. My other property was really a mixed bag, but I felt like my best chance to land a big buck was going to be from the property in the county I reside. As it turned out, I saw more activity in the evening on the property in the other county than I did on the property that I thought I might get a deer.

Moral to the story, be in the right place in the right time and trust what you know. You know what your trail cameras are showing and you know what weather conditions will be most favorable - that's my strategy.

 

I don't have options like that. I hunt State Land almost exclusively, so I have several stand sites in various locations on this 1200 acres of almost all woods/thickets. Ya just have to walk further than most guys are willing to. The thing I love about State Land is you don't have to worry about loosing it.

 

Never. I hope to have more land access next year to remedy this. Sporadic hunting alleviates pressure from over hunting though.

 

I have more ground then i can ever cover during a hunting season.sometimes it is just economics of hunting gas,money and time. Most of my hunting adds up to wind direction and which property had good trail cam pics and even that has come back and bit me in the arse last year. My best spot over the years had little to no buck activity last year until a few days before gun season and some really big deer moved thru past my cams during daylight and i was somewhere else that my cams told me i should be at that time.Most days i dont pic which stand to hunt until i watch the wind on the local flags until i get on the ground i am hunting and then i still flip a coin on stand location for the hunt. sometimes luck is a better hunting partner.

 

Wind direction (first and foremost), hunting pressure and available time for a sit. I have quite a few stands in quite a few areas across 3 counties.
I over-hunted a dream area once.. never do that again. I'll hunt the same stand/area no more than 2-3 days in a row, if that... and I have 1 area that gets saved for late October or later.

*my honey-hole, btw, is more or less in a family member's "back yard". It's a wooded area on the out-skirts of a well-to-do community, that just happens to sit in the middle of farm land. It's a place that's nearly impossible to gain permission and many deer die of old age. These areas are gold mines, so hang on to yours and hunt it wisely.

 

This ^ Though, I also base it on food sources that year, and this year the water sources as well.

 

I agree with the numbers, activity, etc... The conditions would be a big part I would look at. wind, weather, other hunters in the area. I like to bounce around for more opportunity. That's just me

 

I know it's the right one.

 

For me distance plays a big role. I have access to 4 properties. IL-10-15 acre swamp completely surrounded by crops and 20 acre river bottom that is massively over-hunted. WI- 220 acre mostly crops and 43 acres big woods with nearest crops approx 1.5 miles away. The IL properties are both :30 away while the WI properties are 2.5 hours away. I rotate the IL properties as the wind and time allows. The good thing (or actually bad) is that the swamp is that once the crops are out so are the deer until March so I hunt that property fairly hard early season. I do not step foot on the 43 acres of woods until end of October at the earliest.

 

I try and hunt my 60 acre property only once a week if even that. but in the past I over hunted a 300 acre property and never saw deer come rut. however, it was across the street from my parents house and I would hunt everyday after school. I wish i could have those days back.