Man Jeff thats funny! I'm praying for a north wind this weekend.

I'm with duke on the pinch points. If you are pretty sure you know where he is bedding, I think I would stay out in the mornings for now, for fear of bumping him. Eberhart, in Bowhunting Pressured Whitetails, (I think you had said you read it, so I apologize if I'm saying things you already are aware of) talks alot of morning sits, as they are his favorite, and if you are hunting a deer in the morning, and know where he is bedding, to get in WAY before light, 2 hours is his preferred entry time. I know your deer are unpressure in this area, but it could be an option if you want to give a bedding area sit a try. He says that they will pass you in the dark sometimes, butif you are in early, they are none the wiser, whereas if you get in 20-30 minutes prior to shooting light, you are going to meet up with him on his way to bed.

Also, here, when they are off the beans as a food source, they still use the fields as scrape locations. Last year, I hunted adjacent to a bean field, a 340 acre bean field actually, and once the beans dried up, and edges of the field were littered with scrapes, and I saw lots of bucks just walking the edge of the field. Could be another option for you once the scrapes start showing up.

Off the NW corner of the field. He probably skirts that corner by 50 yards or so. There must be some sort of landscape feature or other reason he bypasses the closer (NW) corner to enter the field in the SW corner. If you can figure out the why you may be able to exploit it to your advantage. Otherwise I'd set up about 50-75 yards in from the NW corner so your wind is blowing into the field.

Here's my dileema, Mike (and I JUST learend what a "yooper" was, this weekend.....lol).

I can enter from these two locations (see map). I don't mind going in early.....but if I enter from the N....I'm likely to go in on the same path he is. If I enter from the south....It'll have to be along the bean field edge.

Any suggestions? I haven't tried to come in from the middle of the woodlot.....but if I catch a rainy day (tomorrow?)....I might check that out, too.

Red lines are potential entrance points.

Another way to hunt him is not hunt him at all until he gets stupid during the pre-rut. I like that thicker pine bedding area to the west where you put "Trail to enter beanfield". Wait for a West wind when he scent checks the east side of that bedding area , and set up tight to the south/east of the bedding area to get the least amount of your scent dispersed with that west wind....as he approaches from the North. Just some thoughts.

Good luck and I hope you arrow him Jeff.

Brett

I'm not even sure I'll shoot him.....lol...as he'll likely only go 90" or so. But...he's the best I've "seen". He may not be alone over there, though....and I'm hoping for that.

Another thing to note is the property line I CAN NOT cross.

Here it is....(light green)

With the full leaf cover still on, I think you can get a way with a little more this time of year. You could always walk a ways out into the bean field, get perpendicular to your stand site, and walk straight in. I had a property similar to this where the property lines may as well have been the Berlin wall, and that is how I accessed one really good spot. I got about 100 yrds into the bean field, parallelled the woodline, and then took a 90 and walked into the stand site, avoiding walking the whole edge of the woods, where the deer traveled, and also avoiding walking over the scrapes that were there.

I haven't been at this crop-hunting game very long, so I am learning at this point too, being a Yooper, there aren't many (pronounced ANY) crops where I used to hunt, so my advice may well be avoided for best results!

Not sure I can help,
if you have Irrigation ditches in the fields there usually a good method to sneek around on to get by deer, if not i would fallow the fence row(or what appears to be) from the south side of the large field and then work north to the corner, Also what about elavation inside the woods, the deer maybe walking in depressions or on top of small hills. I would try to set up somewhere class to that blue circle. The deer might be using those pines off the property for cover if it rains tomorrow.

Here's the topo....and some likely travel routes (which have been verified)

Well it's tough not seeing the ground and knowing where they're bedding and all that. BUT, a couple things you might want to consider. Deer are just like humans, they like to take the path of least resistance. TWO, you show these "Probably Deer Routes" traveling up these narrow ravines. Deer much more prefer to travel up and down a gradual slopping finger than a up a steep side hill like you show on one of my red marks. I'd look on these nice gradual slopes for travel or even in the woods along the bottom where the fingers point to. If you try to set up in those narrow ravines you're going to have fit with shifting winds. You may get your desired wind direction but find it doing a 180 in those ravines.