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Post by Hood on Mar 21, 2008 15:53:48 GMT -5
No, I am not asking "exactly" where your best hunting spots are, but rather what type of areas you find them located and why you think they are the best spots. So, what kind of area do you find to be your best deer hunting spots? Are they thickets, a grove of acorn trees, river bottoms, or what? Of course, if you really want to share those exact GPS coordinates, feel free to send them to me! ;D  |
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Post by jajwrigh on Mar 21, 2008 16:09:30 GMT -5
Creek bottoms where funnels that lead from ridges cross each other. Its the "4 way stop" in my deer woods. There is food, water, and lots of cover in the bottoms and all over the ridges as well.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Mar 21, 2008 16:16:13 GMT -5
I love hunting the edges of CRP fields. You never know what just might pop out of that CRP and walk right to ya.
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Post by Sleazy E on Mar 21, 2008 16:19:04 GMT -5
My favorite spot is a small pine thicket that is about 50 yards form an acorn flat.... I also like to put stands in saddles on ridges.... bucks seem to like to use those to get around.
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Post by Hawkeye on Mar 21, 2008 16:30:50 GMT -5
I like along shallow creeks with Thick brushy Bedding areas on one side and Crops with funnels on the other.
Fence lines or ridges with cover extending from creeks into fields are good for me.
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Post by deerman on Mar 21, 2008 20:28:44 GMT -5
On the tail gate of my truck eating lunch. I've seen more deer there than I can count. |
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 21, 2008 20:51:17 GMT -5
Bottoms, field edges.
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Post by huxbux on Mar 21, 2008 21:17:51 GMT -5
I hunt the big woods and I'm with Sleazy, saddles on ridges in the morning. If its calm for the evening hunt and the air is sinking, I'll drop down into a pinch point in the bottoms.
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Post by Bentwrench on Mar 21, 2008 21:18:38 GMT -5
In my side yard, this pic was taken yesterday. I have been watching this piebald doe for about 5 or 6 years now. Always seems to disappear come deer season!  |
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Post by ripleyshooter on Mar 21, 2008 21:47:11 GMT -5
My favorite hunting spot is where the deer are at. I am not trying to be a smartapple but if you hunt October to January those sweetspots change. Early October I like to hunt a foodsource preferably around a whiteoak grove. During the rut I try to hunt where I can intercept does on travel routes hoping that A big ole buck is thinking the same thing and late season I like to setup between bedding areas and places where the deer are feeding, these areas are usually marked by a well defined trail by the middle of December. One farm that I hunt is basically a travel route through gown up fencerows and choked out thickets that lies between two big woods that receive a lot of hunting pressure which is where I shoot a lot of does during the gun and muzzy seasons. Sometimes you can use hunting pressure to your advantage and sit up in what the deer considers their safety zone.
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Post by danf on Mar 21, 2008 22:33:21 GMT -5
My new favorite spot is a funnel at the top end of a long, deep drainage ravine. dadfsr knows where it's at. That's where I shot my buck on November 8 last fall. A long time ago I had a stand near where a ridge top made a 90 degree turn, went from running west-east to south-north. For a while I had a deer down by 8:30 every opening morning of shotgun season for 4-5 years in a row. That stand is long gone now, but I'm thinking about putting up another one close to there again.... |
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Post by lugnutz on Mar 21, 2008 23:40:40 GMT -5
the greenest thickets closest to a food source
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Post by antiwheeze on Mar 22, 2008 7:06:59 GMT -5
I found a persimmon tree that was a major draw.
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 22, 2008 8:18:05 GMT -5
Mostly funnels......
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Post by turkeyscout on Mar 22, 2008 8:47:24 GMT -5
...every year its seems to change where i hunt , usually hunt where most of the corn fields are at,i scout a lot(with rubber boots) mainly looking for those honey holes, it could be a oak tree or a funnel or a scrape, to many to mention, i might add ..i hunt alot on instinct... if the spot i pick does not feel right ,i have to move, one thing on scouting, i usually have to many spots to choose from..honey holes change all thru the season and sometimes i move ,just to change the scenery,,,once i get some confidence in a area , it usually pays off!! LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION ...turkey scout
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Post by whiteoak on Mar 23, 2008 6:25:41 GMT -5
Before EHD hit., and it hit hard, out my back door and across the field was pretty good for me......
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Mar 24, 2008 6:31:50 GMT -5
I am mainly a morning / early afternoon hunter. I set-up on high ground on the fringe of bedding & early afternoon browsing areas.
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Post by 76chevy on Mar 24, 2008 9:27:38 GMT -5
funnels, funnels, funnels!
between food sources and bedding locations
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Post by buckeater on Mar 24, 2008 11:02:52 GMT -5
funnels, where the a woods makes a corner, and pockets of fields that are well secluded
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Post by lugnutz on Mar 24, 2008 21:30:59 GMT -5
i've found funnels only work, for me, when their isn't much hunting pressure.
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