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Old 08-15-2005 | 02:04 PM
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Dirt2
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Default RE: Scouting Map - Where would you target for Hunt?

God I love maps! I can get my hunt blood up faster looking at a map like yours than almost anything else.

Starting at the bottom of the map. (I'm calling "up" north.) You've got a stand marked out in the sparse woods that makes a corner with heavy cover to the south and east. Why not tuck that stand as close to the corner in the heavy cover as possible? In other words, move it east from the present location. With that corner, you should have deer coming out headed west for the beans on the one edge, and deer heading north into the corn on the other edge.

Now, northwest of the beanfield, you've got a stand located on the east edge of that little bitty triangle of cover. Not having a real idea of scale, I don't know how wide that "bridge" is, but if it's wide enough, it looks like an absolute monster funnel, and I'd want a stand in the south edge of the sparse woods nearest the north edge of the "bridge".

Finally, I like another water funnel east of that last spot. You've got two stands located in that heavy cover near some beds. How about another stand southwest of those two, in the neck of heavy cover running south around the edge of the body of water. That neckof cover connects two cornfields, and a stand on the west edge of the water seems like it would be easier to get into than the two stands right in the middle of the bedding area.

I like most of the stand locations you've got plotted out, and obviously you know the ground and the deer better than I possibly could, but I hope I've given you something anyway. Good luck.
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