I dont have the slightest idea of what this is? will somebody help

Picture an "hour glass" The funnel is the pinch point in the center that forces the deer to travel through a narrow corridor.

Some things that cause funnels are water ways, (beaver ponds, rivers creeks, swamps ect) saddles, benches, fence lines, inside corner of field edges, etc.

A funnel can be just about anything. The classic funnel is a wooden fence line across a field that connects 2 tracts of woods. If a deer wants to get from one set of woods to another without crossing an open field they are going to use the wooded fence line. That about the most obvious funnel there is but a funnel could also be something as obscure as a break in a fence line. True deer can leap 7 or 8 feet pretty easy but would you do hurdles if you didn't have to. A break in a fence line is an easy spot to cross and deer will use it. Just about anything that channels deer paths into a smaller area can be considered a funnel.

What I noticed on my property is if you scout you can see the funnels by sign of the deer and how the trails slowly, but surely narrow down to more major ones. The classic one I have is a 13 acre woods that has a section of prush about 50 yards wide that sticks out by itself a couple hundred yards towards an ag ditch. there is a fence there but that is not where most of the deer walk as the fence doesn't offer the best cover. I can put a trail cam in the woods right before the brush and pick up a dozen deer a day failry consistantly, especially during the winter. Otherwise, breaks in the fence and even old roads that offer no resistance but surrounded by trees seem to be favourite spots on our property, at least that is where the poachers seem to line up[:'(]

This is a classic funnel that has produced deer year after year for me. It THE place to be, expecially opening day. Reason ? The north part of that map is a steep choked up cedar glade and overgrown clear cut. The south is overgrown pasture. All the rest are open fields. You're a big buck ....... you want to go from the north to south, or south to north. How you going to do that without being seen ?

Those red lines are how- and its what the deer know

Datamax,

That is one good looking funnel.

Think of one like orange cones during road construction. Something that causes deer to go in a certain path. Light is like an orange cone. Data's funnel is a good example of it. Something as simple as cutting to big a shooting lane, letting in to much light, will cause a deer to change it's path.

Like Buckeye said an hourglass shaped area of taller woods that conceal deer movement . The picture data has is a perfect example of the hourglass . Saddles also bunch up deer as they like to be on the high ground , able to see all around them .

datamax posted a perfect example of a funnel.

not only is it a good funnel , but that dark spot is a pond (increases pushing the travel of deer to one side of the other) , and to the left of the pond(dark spot) you can make out its a bit lighter ? Yessir, we made that into a food plot