I'm planning on doing an all day sit tomorrow, maybe in the same stand and maybe split between 2. Depends what I see in the am. I have 3 spots in mind that have produced good buck sighting this year and last. Help me decide where to go. I'm including a topo of the area. Red is the property line of my 85 acres. Yellow is corn that was standing as of last weekend not sure now. Green is my food plots. Suppose to be a South wind. #1 is a pretty big creek bottom below a small corn field. The deer come off the hill from the corn field and head up a dry creek bed to bed on small fingers or in the brushy bottom, lots of blow downs and brush. I can set up at the mouth of the small dry creek bed and catch them entering there. Lots of rubs and scrapes in this bottom last year, but not so much yet this year. #2 Is farther up the dry creek bed with my food plots on one side and CRP fields on the other side. We saw lots of deer cruising here last year. This is where I killed last years buck. Wind can be tricky down here, you just have to hope they come in from upwind. #3 Is a spot where ridges come together around a few deep hollows. Lots of rubs and a few scrapes on the ridges. Bucks and does like to use the ridges to get around the steep hollows.
If the corn is still standing I would choose #1. The wind is probably the best for that stand considering they will likely not be coming from the north. Also in my experience the closer you can get to standing corn this time of the year the better. I'm no expert but I would choose #1
As your teammate I would like you to kill a buck so which ever gives you the greatest chance to do so would be my pick. Haha!
As his teammate, your supposed to help him make the choice where that buck is going to be by pointing out something he is missing. :D
Personally (from my limited knowledge of your area) I like stand 1. But, my advice is to let mobow pick two and then go to the third! :D :D :D :D
Mobow has sat #1 a few times. He usually sees deer and killed his button buck there. He also has woke up from cat naps in his stand and had deer staring up at him wondering what that chain saw was doing up in that tree.:D:D
Heck, John... they say chainsaws will ATTRACT deer who know there's about to be fresh browse around... Maybe Don has invented the next new call! :D :D
John, I marked a few spots that look good to me with a south wind. Bucks can scent check the field for any doe in heat, plus for their own protection from above, while looking downhill. For some reason the spot I marked in pink is the most intriguing. It seems that is the quickest, most protected route from both corn areas to your food plots and those doe bedding areas on those fingers. Just my thoughts and a disclaimer...I do not hunt food plots/corn, or anything. I just looked at it from my perspective. Take care, good luck, and please let us know what you see tomorrow...possible mark it on your topo because that really helps me learn. Brett
Ridges baby!!! Of course there is less sign there, cause that's where the are in the daytime! All that sign in the low areas is made at night. Go high, and shoot straight!
At 11:24 that giant you rattled in last weekend is going to stroll by you at 13 yards at stand #3. Now go get him! I'd hunt 3 that morning and at 12:30 decide if what you have seen is enough to stick it out. Stand #1 looks to be a good afternoon spot IMO. It should be a south wind throughout the day tomorrow though, so some of those spots are risky.
Thanks for the advice guys. Nobody likes #2 huh, Matt and myself saw an awefull lot of action there last year and I had a shooter at 40 yards thru brush last week. I guess I'll sleep on it tonight and make up my mind in the morning. I'm outta here!! GONE HUNTIN!!
Back from my pick my stand weekend. I ended up flip flopping between 1 and 3. I started out Sat morning at #3 and saw one little 3 pointer cross the ridge and nose around down in the hollow below me for a while. Got a text from the neighbor, he had a 140 and a 170 in view chasing 2 different does at the same time. WOW! Sat. afternoon around 1:30 I moved to #1 and heard a doe come crashing off the ridge near the corn field. She came to within 30 yards of me and turned back to look up the ridge. She stared up there for 5 minutes then went back back up. Half hour later a spike came off that ridge and nibbled in the bottom a bit and went back up. Then a small 6 point came from the dry creek bed and walked up to the corn field. There was something going on up on that ridge. Sunday morninmg back at #1. Had deer chasing on the ridge before first light. Got light enought to see and there are 2 bucks chasing a doe one is a good 9 pointer. The small one stops in range but the 9 pointer cruises by and won't stop. I see them for 1/2 hour or so before they leave. Then a forky cruises thru about 8:30. Started to rain hard about 10:00 so I headed back to the trailer. Rain stops around 2:20 and I'm on stand by 2:45. I'm close to #3 but had to move to adjust for NE wind. All hell broke loose in the deer wods 20 minutes after I got on stand. I know I saw 5 different bucks chasing I don't know how many different does. There were bucks crossing the ridge chasing does, bucks chasing does in the hollow and bucks running the tops of the ridges looking where to join in. It was a magical evening for sure. And one of the bucks was my big 10 pointer from last year. He was protecting one particular doe for his own. One time they passed within 35 yards but couldn't get him or her to stop. That is whats frustrating about this time of year. You can see lots of deer but shots are hard to come by. Last year. This year. He is a monster.
Sounds like they were running a lot better on your side of the county! I got the text about the big 10 encounter and thought to myself how much can this one buck could torture you. Just another chapter in his book though, and one that will make it just that much sweeter when he finally does ends up on your wall.
