RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pro's - Plenty of deer.
Weather is very good.
Get to visit with good friends at one of my spots.

Con's - It's not in my back yard (too much driving).

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

PROS
My lease starts beside my house :)
800 acres
low hunting pressure
good food source
good genitics
plenty of water
agriculture crops in three locations
old quad trails and haul roads through out for access
mixture of hard woods pines flat woods and strip minning hills, very diverse in structure.
low gun hunting pressure
turkeys everywhere :D<<<<Bam!!
cost effective $$
good trees to hunt

CONS
Recent EHD out break
to hilly in some spots to access easily
the guys that own ten acres that butt up to my honey hole that shoot everything in gun season [:@]and have permission to drive through the lease/gate to acess there property.
to many Does....we are working on that
dead zone to the cell phone service:D
to many squirles[8D]

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pros:
Great Habitat - Pretty decent cover with some good food sources (acorns and browse)
Natural Funnel - They either have to go thru the industrial park (parking lots and buildings) or come thru the woodlot.
Easy access - but this is a con too.
Good climbing trees - I use a portable climber so it's good to have a lot of options as I usually don't hunt the same tree more than once a season if I don't have too.

Cons:
Other hunters - enough said
Easy Access - See number 1
Longevity - my guess is one day it because part of a housing plan or an expansion of the current industrial park.

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pro's:
Lots of whitetail
Tons of exotic's
Quite a few hogs
Fair amount of turkey's
Private land
Thick cover for bedding

Con's:
No agriculteral fields in this entire region
Too thick-1200ac. of bedding...LOL
Wind swirls through the thick cedars terribly

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pros:

1. Little pressure
2. Proximity to home
3. Deer numbers/density is high
4. Lots of good trees
5. Good funnels/transition area
6. Good mast crops

Cons:

1. Trespassers/Poachers
2. No bedding areas
3. No ag crops
4. Deer density (does) is too high to sustain a good mix of bucks (ratio is off).
5. Relatively poor genetics
6. ONLY wind I can hunt and know I'm OK is a S wind...which is seldom the one I get.

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pros: LOTS of big deer. Several 150+ killed in the area last season.Also big bodies, typical bucks are 200#+ on the hoof. (Yeah Texas does have some).

Cons: 4 hour drive. The cost of fuel is making it not feasible this year. [X(]

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pro's
Lot's of deer
Good food plots
good friends
It's Mine

Con's
County land borders 2 sides get's pounded by gun hunters
It's considered big wood hard to pattern deer.
It takes alot of work to maintain
It's a 3 hour drive from my house.

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pros:
A lot of deer
Potential to grow good size deer
No rifle hunting
Close to home/work
Very bowhunting friendly
Land owners very good people

Cons:
A lot of hunting pressure
A lot of deer, but many are does/1.5 year old bucks
Shotgun hunting
Very small properties
Surrounded by Posted/Refuge/otherwise inaccessible land that deer stick to when pressured
Deer are not given opportunity to reach potential
Tresspassers
Poachers
Have to watch to not offend landowner's neighbors
Dogs walkers/joggers/mountain bikers/party kids/dirt bikers/meth heads/various other types of pressure
Other hunters not always considerate (i.e. they will try to sabotage your hunt)

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pro's: plenty of deer
close by
bowhunting only
I know it well
good habitat
some nice oak/beech tree's nearby
fairly low hunting pressure
Con's:it's public
very few "big" bucks[&o]
poor buck/doe ratio

RE: Pros & Cons of YOUR hunting area
 

Pros:
No other hunting pressure
lots of good sized deer
Good weather

Cons:
3 hour drive from my house
thickest woods you have ever seen, seriously.