First off Spooner, thank you for all you do. My father retired from the Corp after 26 years. My good friend from college is now a Major (Tim Brady) stationed at Lejeune, but he is deployed at the moment.

I hunt at Quantico Marine Base up here in VA and have some tips for you when you hunt Lejeune even though I know nothing about the land itself. These tips have helped me on the base when I first started.

1) See if you can meet up with the conservation officer(game warden maybe)on base and ask him a lot of questions about where he sees a lot of deer.

2) Try to talk with someone from the natural resource department and ask them if/where they have planted any food plots. This one is huge b/c many people do not know that people on the base plant food plots in remote areas and they can be gold mines if you hunt them at the right time.

3) Then I would begin driving around the base in July/August during the last hour before dark and look for any herds of deer in fields and the edges of the woods and note them ona map.


4) And last but not least, if an area looks great prior to the season, chances are many other people are onto the area as well and will put a lot of pressure on it immediately. Have a plan B or C to intercept the deer as they move further back into the woods once the hunting pressure mounts on the base.

I wish you and your son the best of luck.

Brett