"Official" Digital Scouting Thread-HNI Assistance
02-13-2008 | 09:53 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Cogan Station, PA
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.
Great post, you really put a lot of work into that. Good luck with it all.
04-04-2008 | 12:53 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Cogan Station, PA
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.
04-04-2008 | 01:43 PM
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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
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
04-04-2008 | 09:35 PM
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From: Cogan Station, PA
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
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
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