BlacktailStalker
07-08-2006, 02:53 PM
Anyone been out looking ? Have any promising spots in mind ?
I took my dog for a walk into an area I had stored in the back of my mind from a couple years ago, it looked promising for early season deer. Unfortunately the first part I went into had been cleared right out. It wasnt too big a deal because the area I had to get to was made easier to get to because of this. I was about 40 yards from the exact area I wanted to put my stand and my dog stopped and went tense as at least 3 or 4 deer crashed through the bush behind a clump of poplars and maples. Sure enough there are 3 MAJOR traills coming out of the thick, thick timber and underbrush, into a grassy, treed poplar stand. Lots of shoots and berries as well. This "border" is where I plan to start my opening archery days as they are bedding down in the thick impenetratable woods and coming into the grassy poplar areas and continuing down several hundred yards into farmers fields to feed in the afternoon and back in the a.m. I cleared several shooting lanes as high up as I could reach and took the fallen debris far away so I dont taint the area too bad with scent and I wont be back until the day I plan on hunting it. I'll be trimming as I climb up in my climber.
Its getting close and I am getting stoked. A sleeping 3x4 (what a hog he will be by september) and 3x3 in my buddys yard the other day didnt help the time go by any faster either !
I took my dog for a walk into an area I had stored in the back of my mind from a couple years ago, it looked promising for early season deer. Unfortunately the first part I went into had been cleared right out. It wasnt too big a deal because the area I had to get to was made easier to get to because of this. I was about 40 yards from the exact area I wanted to put my stand and my dog stopped and went tense as at least 3 or 4 deer crashed through the bush behind a clump of poplars and maples. Sure enough there are 3 MAJOR traills coming out of the thick, thick timber and underbrush, into a grassy, treed poplar stand. Lots of shoots and berries as well. This "border" is where I plan to start my opening archery days as they are bedding down in the thick impenetratable woods and coming into the grassy poplar areas and continuing down several hundred yards into farmers fields to feed in the afternoon and back in the a.m. I cleared several shooting lanes as high up as I could reach and took the fallen debris far away so I dont taint the area too bad with scent and I wont be back until the day I plan on hunting it. I'll be trimming as I climb up in my climber.
Its getting close and I am getting stoked. A sleeping 3x4 (what a hog he will be by september) and 3x3 in my buddys yard the other day didnt help the time go by any faster either !