RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

oh the brown is the road leading to all of the hay fields

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

Well I think I am going to head out to go hunt in about 15 minutes--I cant decide what blind that I want to sit in today because the winds are coming from the west and the deer are usually downwind from all my blinds..hmm...

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

Well I would perfer to know which direction is what , or is up considered North, before I say anything. I need to know what directions the winds are coming from on a daily basis. I know things can change, but which way the blow mostly. I also would like to know some distance scale for the drawing. Like one inch = 100 yards, or something like that. If you can give this info, we could be more help.

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

ok--- looking at the map, north would be at the bottom, south the top, east the left and the west would be to the right.

The winds blow in from the south west and the west most of the time.

To scale the map would kinda be a pain... the creek is probably325 yards long and275 yards north of the circle of walnut trees. Hope that helps

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

It's hard to really tell from your map, but what does the white space represent and what are the big orange blocks?
Are you walking into the blind in the circle from the road to the right of it? If the wind is out of the west and southwest, then it looks to me as if your scent is blowing directly into the bedding areas on the left side of the circle. I would try to get a little closer to the corn and alfalfa. Seems to me that those deer bedding in the circle would be feeding there. Just my opinion.

BRC

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

Sorry its kinda a crummy map-

The orange is allbean fields- most of the white space is tall grass

The only thing is I can only enter the area from the little road that goes back there- otherwise I would have to walk through a huge bean field and be quiet (they havent cut them yet)

Maybe ill try to take some pictures next time im out

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

I drew a little picture because I was bored of the place that I hunt---tell me if you think I have my blinds in good spots...

The wind * vs * blind placement..food for thought.

I would consider a blind at the east line to the south end of the walnut tree line. Ifthe winds are from the south to south west, That would blow out to the corn and alfalfa,from you inside the walnut circle,and kill anything in the walnut tree circle ( grove ) area wanting to head west from the bedding areas or returning from eating the corn and alfalfa. Also you have to be careful inside the grove of walnuts, because if the wind is blowing, the trees can cause the windto swirl, andthat will spread your scent all over that part of the grove, and you are in ground blinds, right at nose level. There are a lot of possible places for blinds, but think about the wind and your scent at all times. Where your ground blind is inside the oval grove, your wind is going to blow into all of the stuff you have made up on the east side of the grove and the deer in turn would head east, north east,or east, south east,to avoid you by going around you to get to the west area.

Is it an entry trail or an exit trail? Which direction are they using a certail trail to travel?

Also remember this, not all deer trails are the same. A lot of times the deer have trails they take to one place, and leave that place by a different trail. So try to see which trails are the in trails and which are the out trails. You may be set up on atrail that you would have a hard time getting a shot from because of the deers direction of travel *vs* the direction your scent is blowing. If they are headed to someplace in the south - south west area and your wind is to their nose ( which is the way they like to travel ) , then they will smell you and you will never see them. So make sure you are always to the east north east of the trail or bedding area food source, scrape or rub.

Now nothing is fool proof. But this is a basic idea for your set-up. I hope it helps and you bag a great deer.

Ok

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

I started hunting about 10 years ago.Learned to listen to expeirenced hunters. One hunter told me to liquidfy some protoleum jelly,and apply to my broadheads. Stops the blood from conglogelating. I have always found my deer, even bad shots.It was a good tip. Another hunter told me that the deer you hit will ussually veer to the oppisite side hit or head to water if near. Hope you see one and get a hit.

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

It's really hard to pick sites based on a colored map without really seeing it in person. However, I would place my stands based on:
a) wind direction MOST CRITICAL!
b) accessability
c) cover
d) food
I've been hunting for over 30 years, and I've hunted whitetails in the north and south and it has been my experience that big bucks will travel with the wind. It makes logical sense. When he's travelling with the wind, he can see ahead of him for danger and he can smell anything approaching from the rear. Same way when he beds down. His butt will be pointing into the wind. I was hunting a big buck in IL last november and I saw him one day and he was travelling with the wind. I moved my stand over to that ridge and the next day with a stiff south wind, he came with the wind. I had a scent bomb placed up wind from me, hoping that he would pass the scent bomb, smell it, turn and go back and investigate it and I would have a clean shot. He would be upwind from me so he never smelled me. All worked out just as planned except for the shot. I hit him a little farther back than I wanted and to make a long story short, we never found him. Went back the next day a roamed all the property and never found him. I was sick!
But anyway, as far as stand locations just keep the wind in mind when approaching your stand and deciding which stand to hunt. The red X's on the map would be places worth considering. Remember, bucks like to work the edges, as evidenced by the scrape lines.

BRC

RE: New to deer hunting- need help
 

Thanks for your help-
I will have to go out there now and move a couple of my stands. I have yet to see a deer so maybe wind direction is my problem.

Well see what this brings me- thanks again.