Well this will be my first year in 3 seasons that I have made time to get back into bowhunting. I have lived in PA for the last 8 years, and had great success down there, but now I am back up in Vermont where it is all big woods hunting. There isn't nearly as much farm land around here to hunt, and what is here is either posted or swamped with hunters. All the spots I used to hunt as a kid are now posted, however I have access to a ton of big woods areas still and one decent farm. Below is the one farm that I still have permission to hunt. It does get slammed with bowhunters, usually 4-6 guys that hunt it pretty hard but most aren't that good and hunt the field edges pretty hard and thats it.





The area with red dots is an apple orchard that is overgown, unfortunately it is posted and I have no permission to be in there. Everything else south of that to the red line I have permission on. The green dots is a VERY thick swamp that the deer use for bedding. Hunters are on the south side of that swamp towards the fields, and there is one stand just east of the tip of it as well. The blue dots is a field that I ALWAYS see does and fawns in just before sundown, they bed in there only about 100 yards in. In this spot w/ the blue dots when I was a kid, the deer used this spot a lot, however would change their patterns quickly when hunting pressure was present and would no longer use this area till after dark, I also think hunters are in this spot as well as there is a treestand right where they come into the field. As far as I know, no one gets between the swamp and the apple orchard though, and I can be in that area.

Knowing this, what areas would you guys hunt and why? How would you access those spots when hiking in? Accessing from the north side of the swamp is pretty impossible as well, keep that in mind, I believe it is posted on the road there so I will have to access anything from the south side of the swamp. Season opens 10/2 and I need to get a treestand in there this Sunday when I have time......so quick suggestions are more than appreciated.

I shot my first buck where the power line goes up the mountain there when I was 10 y/o, and 2 big gobblers just north of there this spring.....

Thanks!