wingmaster
10-31-2015, 09:20 PM
Hi fellas, hoping for some insight on how to hunt an area new to me that is quite different from what im used to.
I was invited along with a friend on a trip around williams lake, im used to hunting region 3 where i usually find some timber to slowly hike through and have been quite successful that way. however in this new area all the timber is so dense with windfall and bugkill on the ground making hiking through impossible.
nowhere in the ground that i have covered strikes me as good "deer country" but my buddy has had success in the past. My question for people that hunt similar areas is what strategies do you use(hike the edges of the timber?, get high and glass cutblocks?) and what are indicators of good deer country in this kind of habitat.
maybe weve just been hitting the wrong spots or going about hunting them wrong, and maybe there are pockets of open timber for still hunting and we just need to find them.
thanks for any advice
I was invited along with a friend on a trip around williams lake, im used to hunting region 3 where i usually find some timber to slowly hike through and have been quite successful that way. however in this new area all the timber is so dense with windfall and bugkill on the ground making hiking through impossible.
nowhere in the ground that i have covered strikes me as good "deer country" but my buddy has had success in the past. My question for people that hunt similar areas is what strategies do you use(hike the edges of the timber?, get high and glass cutblocks?) and what are indicators of good deer country in this kind of habitat.
maybe weve just been hitting the wrong spots or going about hunting them wrong, and maybe there are pockets of open timber for still hunting and we just need to find them.
thanks for any advice