Good news from my place. Last year I shot a doe on opening morning on my friends property - we'll he sold that to the DNR, but anyways we had scouted that whole area which was a river bottom mixed with upland conifer (add in a few fields and wild apples). We got permission to hunt /scout the neighbors land and found that most of the trails in the area lead to a corner on this one field which happens to be on the next land owner over - we had no permission.

Well I has talking over our hunting plan with my 12 year old on the way to soccer tournament - He said he want to go to the best place to shoot a deer. Now I've got probably close to 20 stand sites in and around my property. But this spot we had scouted on a field corner had more sign than I've seen. Like a deer interstate. So I decided to try to ask the land owner for permission. We had just been talking about it in hunters safety. So we stopped on our way home from soccer.

I think bringing my kid along was my golden ticket - because this guy was a gun hunter and always posted extra no hunting signs on his property during gun season . So we always assumed he'd say no. But sure enough he was more than happy to lets us. Even gave us a report on deer movement. He said there has been a nice 8point crossing the field in the evenings.

So our plan is to scout today and maybe set up a blind. I think this will be our evening spot for opening day. My kid and I also worked out a deal that any deer 15 yds or under is his - anything further is mine

Turned out to be a great lesson on how to approach property owners for my kid + we got access to a deer interstate with a buck siting. It will be interesting to see what happens. Wisconsin's opener is just a week away.