With opening day in New York only a few days away, its time to pick your location. What does everyone perfer, watching fields or sitting near trails in the woods? Opening day deer are pushed all over the place and it seems as if the fields would be a good spot. The last few years where I hunt in 5n I have watched these fields and have had no luck. I found some good rubs located on a ridge and I think that is where I will set up shop for opening day. What is your preference?
I'd prefer woods soley due to the popularity of field-hunting versus the woods. There will be more guns pointing in the field than a good trail in the thicket.
I think deer will head for cover once the World War starts and they will be flying across open fields anyway.
Well, where I hunt in the Catskills, there aren't many fields anyway, and the few that are there aren't the type that has much nutritional value to the deer anyway, so obviously I'll be hunting in the woods. In all honesty, I've have hunted farms and fields many times, and I just get more enjoyment out of hunting in the woods anyway.
Do deer actually hang out in fields in the daylight where you guys are? If I want to shoot a deer in a field, is has to be an hour before dark in early October.
In my neck of the woods deer go busting out across fields much more often than you'd think. They could easily take a path keeping them in cover, but they'll end up busting right across the fields. Hardest problem there is hitting them. They almost always stop right before they enter the woods again.
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In my neck of the woods deer go busting out across fields much more often than you'd think. They could easily take a path keeping them in cover, but they'll end up busting right across the fields.
Thanks thought I was the only one who had a spot deer crossed fields when pressured.Maybe cause everyone else is hunting them in the woods!
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Fields or Woods
them in the woods!
