TJF, thanks for your input.

I hunt mostly private ground, w/ some public just for good measure. 90% is private though.

The food sources I key in on are mast crops. Half the prop's I hunt are ag, the other half is big woods. After a crop has been harvested, I don't view it as a viable food source for long. Today's combines are just so efficient, they simply don't toss much grain on the ground anymore.

1 property I hunt is 100 acres, with I would say, moderate pressure. Not real heavy, but not real light either. Another I hunt is several hundred, all woods. Pressure there is pretty light, until rifle season opens anyway. 1 of the public grounds I hunt is around 4000 acres, almost entirely wooded. It recieves a fair amount of pressure, almost heavy at times and in certain places. I don't hunt here very often though.

What I look for in a spot is typically a terrain funnel. Travel routes. If those travel routes hold some food, all the better. For instance, I hunt an inside corner that is traveled quite a bit, and there are white oaks and persimmons in that corner. Always a producer, of does. I really like to hunt creek bottoms as well. Good, thick cover down there, and sometimes the creek itself makes a good funnel. I also hunt quite a few oak ridges as well.