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Old 06-01-2011 | 07:49 AM
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Question How Do You Decide?

Last year I had trouble deciding which area to hunt out of the 4 available to me. I spent most of my Bow season on a 80 acre tract surrouded by hundreds of acres of soybean and hardwood forest. In all I saw 18 to 20 Does and 5 Bucks,the largest a nine pointer which a friend shot on his first gun hunt. I took a nice Doe 3 weeks or so into the Bow season and mised another opportunity the 3rd day of the season by overshooting another Doe. I had one shot at a Buck but let him walk only being a 4 pointer. My second most hunted spot yeilded one Doe and another miss with my ML at a Doe. An 18 pointer which scored 196 5/8 was taken in this area the same day the 9 pointer was taken in my first area by my friend Nick. This area is broken up into 2 sections,135 acres of woods and 85 acres of corn last year beans this year,a road seperates these two areas. The last area is public land in the Hoosier Forest which surrounds my best friends house, I saw a nice 8 pointer during ML, no shot on him though, a four pointer which I passed on twice and two nice Does. With so many good places to hunt I'm having a hard time thinking through where to hunt this season. Based on what I have shared,If you were me how would you go about narrowing down your choices or planing your Bow,Gun and ML seasons? What are some deciding factors I should consider having a limited amount of days for the whole season? All these areas are within an hour and a half or less of each other so driving to any of them is no big deal for a morning or evening hunt. Thanks for any input.
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