okie_legrant

I have a 160 acres of land in good deer country in Ok, I was just in there last week and the landowner has decided to remove all the cedar trees. This is something I have been wanting him to do for a long time, but not during the prime time of the season. He won't stop so am I wasting my time trying to hunt this area or should I just sit and hope?

txjourneyman

160 acres is a lot of land. The owner can't work all of it at one time. I'll hunt it if you don't want to!

Rob/PA Bowyer

I'd hunt it as well. You'd be surprised how the deer move in when he moves out. Here in PA it seems the deer show up when you fire the chainsaws, I don't know if they associate it with fresh tree top browse.

west_hunter21

My dad and I have built several permanent free-standing stands over the past couple years, chain saws, drills, us talking, 4 wheeler going back and forth...plain and simple, it's pretty noisy. It never fails though, when we take a break--something always moves in to check out the noise (and that's on 80 acres)

So, long story short...

HUNT IT!

okie_legrant

He is not doing the cutting himself, he has hired a tree cutting team. They work 8-5 mon through fri. They have dozers and tractors. It's a giant mess! He said they will be out of there by this weekend but the trees will not be removed until the spring, andi'm talking about a lot of trees.

Rick James

The loggers on my family property started cutting (3 year contract) 2x days before the opener in PA. I still saw as many deer as I did before and the logging trails and tree tops have really improved the property already. The deer were moving and very relaxed with saws going less than 200 yards away.

txjourneyman

If they are out by the weekend I can be there by Saturday evening. HUNT IT!

MichaelT.

okie legrant,

I have experience here.

1) A relative used to work in a family logging operation. The deer came out of the wood work when the logging started. He drove a skidder, and would watch the deer come out on to the trails he was skidding down , walking behind him as he drove on, and they would eat the fresh browse.

2) Thefamily lease at the timewas about 750 acres. We actually would invite the manageing timber company to send the logging crews to our lease, right before the start of modern gun season, so they could start logging there during the season. Not only did it get the deer up and moving ( having all that heavy equipment running all around the lease ), but they were also willing to drop their front blade, and PUSH out any road we wanted. So if we had a spot we wanted to put a stand in, and they were logging in that section of woods, or right next to it, they would make a clear road in to that area. Never had to pay a dime for it either.

But in no way did it hurt our hunting.

Enjoy it. Good hunting.

God Bless

arkbwhtr1

I'd be hunting. I've been cutting wood the past couple months and have seen more deer doing that than I have from my treestand hunting. They seem to associate the chainsaw with fresh browse.

Sliverflicker

Well, thay about coverd it, Hunt it!