ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
I realised this weekend that I have to relearn how to hunt whitetails and it won't be easy. The new land I'm hunting is very different than what I'm used to. I was east Tx cattle land. Mostly pasture with a few large woodlots. Hunting field edges and oak stands is how I got things done. It wasn't hard to pattern deer.
The new land is 300 acres of freshly plowed clearcut and 1700 acres of hardwoods. There are oak trees dropping acorns EVERYWHERE! I can't just go sit a field like I used to and I can't wait in an oak stand, its all oaks.
So far I feel my best odds are a stand watching a trail beside a creek and another overlooking a couple of active scrapes.
Any of you bigwoods hunters have any advice?
I feel your pain journeyman, I am on my 3rd year hunting a 1200 acre place that is a cedar thicket with oaks mixed all through the place (dropping acorns). Our whole place looks like a bedding area, did I mention it was thick as all get out, the whole place
!!!!!! I am still trying to learn what the deer are doing, I will be watching to learn from this thread as well.....
