Stand location?
 

This is a view of one of the properties I have permission to hunt. I need a little help with stand location.
Red= property I hunt
White=Private Property (where the deer bed)
Black= Dirt path
Blue= Water
Green= Heavily used trails

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Sorry, Pic is HUGE!

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..final aproach looking good..lower gear..put the "pip" 10 degrees down range.

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Id place one on that trail by the bedding erea imo .

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Well now that I look at it again I would also place on by the watet on that green trail might be a good spot . Cody

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I would place it on the trail that goes to the water, probably relativley close to the water too.

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If i were to hunt that area i would probably hunt more by the bedding area, on the trail across the bedding area or on the edge of the bedding area.I dont think that a big deer will be out early and travel all the way to that river in daylight.try and scout from a long distance away and see where exactly the majority of the deer are coiming out or wherethe biggest is. I would get stands hung asap and when u hunt, make sure u play the wind!!!! good luck

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I would place a stand on the point sticking out into the beans depending on if there are any good trails and the distance from the trees to the beans.

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I will come up to Iowa and evaluate your stand choices personally with my bow! I think it depends on what you are after, big bucks-closer to bedding area possibly(probably nocturnal), except during the rut more deer seen from stand- northeast trail either near field or water(probably field)

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well you could use many more stands if you could access them by that water source with a boat. Is it a creek or river??

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I dont know if it has been as dry up there as it has been down here but I would hang one around the edge of the field where the green trail crosses to the water. Also and this would be a dang good spot I think I would hang one as close to the bedding area where the soybeans and the bedding area almost touch at that finger. I believe that that would be the shortest route to food from the bedding area. But like someone said before me sit in the field from afar and glass them in the evening. See which trails they frequent more when moving into the fields

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The water source is accually a drainage ditch. the water is about 4 feet deep and the ditch is about 35yds wide. where the ditch widens is a lake, sort of. The trail by the water runs across a farm crossing, I havent found anywhere that the deer stop to drink, but obviously they have to drink somewhere.

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Without knowing anything about the woods, the three pink dots is where I spend some time. The one closest to the bedding area would be an all day sit during the rut, GUARANTEED.