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Old 03-07-2002 | 03:41 PM
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6ptsika
 
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From: Hamilton Square NJ USA
Default RE: Hunting clearcuts.

Thanks for the tips guys.
I hear ya, Dave, that's why I'm doing this over this weekend and next.
I printed an ariel map last night and overlayed it with the tax map.
It looks like the pines thin a little in one area, so I expect the big guy swings around this clearing on his way to the field. I'm going to verify that Saturday. If I walk back down the tar road from the parking area, and cut a lane in right along the property ditch, I think I can sneak in there and hunt without clueing him in when there's a NNW wind. Not real common, but I'll be patient. I think I'm gonna take my saw and cut a nice comfy ground blind out of pine branches, and a couple lanes. I'm afraid getting off the ground would be a bad idea, as the pines are like christmas trees, and really thin at the top. Plus there's pleenty of other guys in my club who wouldn't mind me putting up a stand that they could use. Since I only hunt down there on weekends an days off, they'd have it all screwed up by then.
Here's a strange idea, what do you guys think about this... The clearcut is about 200yds across where he comes out to the field, and he always comes out here, from what I've seen. Obviously I won't hunt there, because he only actually makes it to the field before daylight a couple times a season. He can't be seen from the road, or the stands along the back wood edge. It widens to about 300yds right off the field. How about if I took some 100lb mono fishing line, and made a two strand "fence" inside the clearcut? Leave a 20ft hole where my blind is. Maybe it would condition him between now and then to take the easy way, and use the "gate"? Any thoughts?
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