RE: Best learned lessons from 2006
I am going to take several precautions in keeping out trespassers on the land I bowhunted last year. I am going to the adjacent landowner to secure written permission, and make sure that she(the landowner) is awarethat the 2 she gave permission to hunt last year were arrested for trespassing and night hunting, using her land as an access to my land. I already have the DNR and local sheriff's depts involved, and my land owner. After I do--soon and very soon--I will post it very thoroughly. Then I will scout the living fool out of all the land to determine the overlapping trailsand plan my entry and exit trails to keep the scent level as low as possible and away from any bedding or feeding areas. I can't risk leaving any climbers in the woods, but I will make a map of all the differing stand sites,and different times of the season that they are most productive--so I keep it fresh in my mind the history that the deer movement layed out for me.I have the memory of that big 150 class 10 that got by me the week before those idiot trespassers ruined my season last year to motivate me--along with the photo of the nice 9 I found after they shot him the night before!!!!!