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MGH_PA 02-13-2008 09:53 AM

RE: "Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
 

ORIGINAL: buckmaster

Great post, you really put a lot of work into that. Good luck with it all.
Thanks, I've gotten a better feel of where I need to adjust my tactics, and already have some stand locations pegged from that first section that I outlined above. Now I need to do the rest of the property, I'm just looking for any extra feedback I can get (if anything jumps out to anyone that I may have missed).

MGH_PA 04-04-2008 12:53 PM

RE: "Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
 
Starting to see a reoccurance of these types of threads, and so one last bump...I've started clearing for most of the stand sites I have identified. Let me know if I may be overlooking anything based on what you see.

jonhall9 04-04-2008 01:43 PM

RE: "Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
 
Matt,

Really nice job on your map, it was informative. I hunted southeastern PA all through high school, and enjoy continuing to do so when home from college now. It's a beautiful state.

I by no means consider myself one of the more knowlegeable people here, but since there seems to be a lack of responses for some reason, I'll give it a shot. Two locations seemed promising to me that you don't seem to have a stand at yet. First, I think that right where your "F" in the word fence is would be a good location for a stand, provided you keep the walkers out of that area in time to let the deer use it regularly. According to your map, it seems the sheep fence ends at your property line. Therefore, I would think the deer from that red bedding area to the west would skirt around the edge of the fence, then come off your neighbors place to enter your field on that inside corner, so it seems like a good location to catch them at both by letting the fence end and field corner control their movement.

Also, how about trying to locate a promising travel route stand somewhere in the non-colored pines in the south-central portion of your property? With the bedding areas you have identified (especially the one off your place to the west) and the area you noted that you had timbered, it seems that deer, and bucks in particular would have to pass somewhere through those pines to travel between bedding areas. Perhaps you could locate a good area for a stand, or a ground blind if the trees aren't cooperating.

Anyway, thanks for the interesting read and views, I enjoyed browsing your property from afar.

Jon

cowboy4513 04-04-2008 04:26 PM

RE: "Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
 
How many People hunt that chunk of land?

MGH_PA 04-04-2008 09:35 PM

RE: "Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
 

ORIGINAL: jonhall9

Matt,

Really nice job on your map, it was informative. I hunted southeastern PA all through high school, and enjoy continuing to do so when home from college now. It's a beautiful state.

I by no means consider myself one of the more knowlegeable people here, but since there seems to be a lack of responses for some reason, I'll give it a shot. Two locations seemed promising to me that you don't seem to have a stand at yet. First, I think that right where your "F" in the word fence is would be a good location for a stand, provided you keep the walkers out of that area in time to let the deer use it regularly. According to your map, it seems the sheep fence ends at your property line. Therefore, I would think the deer from that red bedding area to the west would skirt around the edge of the fence, then come off your neighbors place to enter your field on that inside corner, so it seems like a good location to catch them at both by letting the fence end and field corner control their movement.

Also, how about trying to locate a promising travel route stand somewhere in the non-colored pines in the south-central portion of your property? With the bedding areas you have identified (especially the one off your place to the west) and the area you noted that you had timbered, it seems that deer, and bucks in particular would have to pass somewhere through those pines to travel between bedding areas. Perhaps you could locate a good area for a stand, or a ground blind if the trees aren't cooperating.

Anyway, thanks for the interesting read and views, I enjoyed browsing your property from afar.

Jon
Thanks for the comments and suggestions. About the locations near the "F" in fence...it's funny you point that out, because that's EXACTLY where deer enter that field. I watched deer day in and day out enter from the neighbors side bedding area into where that orange dot is (my stand location). I actually shot my doe from here this season. The problem with this area is the lack of a good exit route out of the stand. I can't exit south for fear of kicking out late coming deer, and I can't exit into the field, because I will jump the deer that have already entered. Exiting east is WAY too thick and would probably jump more as well. This is a great spot, but lacking an exit route.

Cowboy...I'm the only one hunting this in archery. My dad and uncle hunt during rifle season.


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