I have a couple good places to go.

Behind my house I have 33 acres of very thick overgrown apple orchard. Very few good trees for treestands. There is a large creek running along the south border. (Great for big trout and salmon BTW) I really don't see many deer out there however, this is where I killed my first deer.

My father-in-laws farm is 120 acres. I'd say roughly 15 - 20% is woods. Fairly open with good treestand trees. On interesting feature of the farm is a long strip of woods seperating two of the fields. This strip runs from the southern end of the farm, around the field that sits on the southern left corner of the farm, and connects to a large patch of woods. This strip narrows to around 50 yards wide at a key location. Great funnel! Seen many deer in that spot.

My brother-in-laws farm is over 150 acres. Several hedgrows run between fields. Deer seem to love these rows. The eastern most portion of the farm is a large hill that is all hardwoods. This eastern section makes up the southern end of a huge patch of woods that runs for several miles to the north. Unfortunately the deer really seem to hang up off our section and more to the north. I don't have any confirmed permission to hunt up there. We had some logging done a few years ago so now there are some great logging roads and some clear sections on our land. Some of you may recall the photo's I posted of this piece of propery.

I just joined a hunting club last year. They have nearly 1000 acres of land to hunt. Almost all of it is hardwoods with a few swampy sections and a few real thick areas. I haven't even begun to see every section yet although I did hang one stand in a very promising spot.

-Mike