For the most part, I feel my early post-season scouting last year has put me in some good locations this year. I've been also hiking the climber into a few new spots this year with moderate success (sightings wise). I've recently found a spot (well not really found, I knew it was there all along) that might actually be worth looking at, but it's an oddball one for sure.

Take a look at this map:



That white line is our property line, and yes it's bordering a small township road (paved, but very little traffic). For many seasons I would always see rubs right there along the road on our property (the most recent are indicated in YELLOW. The NW side of that road is a fairly deep hollow of pines/hemlocks. We don't own it, and it's not hunted much, but I'm assuming deer are bedding in there, and crossing the road at certain points into our field. This wood make sense as our property is the closest source for corn. I've always seen deer crossing our field roughly where the blue line is indicated, and I've been seeing deer several times where the white dots are (including the last time I walked out of there in the evening with a climber). The blue pin in the north is where I was considering setting up a stand. That strip of woods is narrow. Where the pin is, it's only about 20yds wide. Where the yellow dots are, it's about 5, lol. Just last night again when I was leaving a stand that's off this map to the south, I saw a deer crossing from the north where that blue line is...again. There's nothing in between these corn fields, but some hay (about knee high), but I know they're bedding in the area between the road and the corn field (saw bed marks), but it seems like such a haphazard spot to hunt. Right along a road like that? They're obviously crossing, but...really? I might even consider moving that point in a bit to the west into the even narrower strip, but I'm heisitant. I suppose I could hunt it one evening just to try, but to look at it on a map, it doesn't really look like a spot to hang a stand. I suppose you can't always go by what something looks like on a map, though, huh? Thoughts?