Returning home from my evening hunt (yielded one doe and a fawn), I decided to drive home the back way through our main field. Come to find out the corn was picked this evening. This is only the second time in around 8 yrs the farmer has picked the the corn during our PA archery season. The last time he did it (4 yrs ago), I was 5 minutes of daylight from getting a shot at a bruiser 8 from the finger of foods in the map below just NE of the spot labeled "potential stand site." I think I know where I'm sitting here in the next few days:D
Thanks guys. Going to be hard to pull myself away from the food plot and bedding area on the south end of the property since that's where I have two doe groups nailed down.
I was thinking that same thing for hunting now, lots of visual possibilities for spotting, calling and even perhaps decoy use...
I think I'd do the same, if I had lanes and range to shoot to both field edges... but I like your spot too, Matt. Not sure you could go wrong either way. Good luck!
Just my honest opinion? I would scout quickly and hang a stand to the right of your "potential" stand spot in that little finger. I have found (in my areas anyway) that deer will use those small fingers as travel corridors and have seen some of the biggest bucks holding up in areas like that till almost dark.
Just to clarify, that map is old. My stand is actually at the base of that finger. The finger itself is small, though. Only about 15yds wide. The buck I almost shot 4 years ago from this stand came cruising right around that inside corner. Ben, I'm telling you, if you had a 2G tag, I could put you on a doe pretty easily. I'm passing them now in hopes of cashing in on their presence in the next week or so (hopefully sooner rather than later since I'm running out of time).
