It's doing great. I'm off crutches, walking in a boot,doing therapy, they say I'm ahead of the curve as far as movement.

Boot should come off for good Weds Aug 29th. Thats a month before our opener. So I still have some time to gain more strength.

Thanks for asking Lebeau, it's been a long, agonizing summer but everythings gonna be OK.

Rob,

Generally people hunt from the higher elevation and I would give the following four reasons:
(1) you can see better and farther, (2) you won't be at eye level when the
deer come over the top,
(3) your scent won't circulate as easy down in the valley or draw, and (4) you may have a better
chance of getting in your stand undetected coming from the backside of a hill. There are probably
setups or situations that call for hunting a draw or bottom, but I don't think there are a whole lot of them.

Thanks Will !

Rob,

Your bigger question may be what side of the draw or bottom to hunt. That is harder to help you
with and depends on which direction the deer are coming from (it may change from morning
to afternoon) and of course the wind. If you know the deer are generally coming from a certain
direction, hunt on the side that blows the wind away from that direction.

Whats going on with MOR is basically a disagreement about advertising time... and all the guys have huge egos. MOR buys the time from DISH, DISH is owned by the same people that owns direct TV (I think InterMedia) Well the agreement is MOR pays DISH for the channel 218. Direct TV and DISH buys advertising time back from MOR, but the price was never decieded.... So MOR says it is worth this much because of ratings... InterMedia disagrees and says it should be this much and the reason why you are asking this price is because of money problems... So in renogationing the contract DISH says we will just stop airing the channel until you agree to our price... but what screws the whole deal up is DISH has no plans on resigning MOR on there satalites... and MOR filed for chapter 11..... LONG STORY SHORT IT IS A HUGE HUGE MESS AND CAUSES ME A LOT OF PAIN.

I put one of those together "ONCE" never again.Between my wife asking every hour when it was going to finished and my daughter wanting to use it before it was completed,it was a nightmare!
I am now allergic to any thing that requires assembly! Just like gas grills,whats the deal with always having parts left over?
I feel your pain Germ!!

Not sure if this helps. There are trails on both sides and they run along the hill and down along the creek. There is a small patch of pines relative to the rest of the hardwoods.

Red: Trails
Yellow: Pine patch
Blue: Creek

Rob,

I'm gonna let the pros on our team take this one. [8D]

If it were me I would set up 3 rut stands where I have the circles. The one where the trails mark the x I would move up bit(towards the square).

I would setup early season on those field edges and hunt evenings only until late October. From what I see the deer will bedding near you, so it will be hard to get to your stands undected.

PM me your address and I can get a better map.

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