RE: Rut hunting: Field Edges or Timber ?
 

Field Edges. I do not hunt the timber, much. LOW LOW impact hunting, here.

RE: Rut hunting: Field Edges or Timber ?
 

I like to hunt pinch points/funnels between known doe bedding areas, if that puts me on a fields edge so be it, or if it's in a thin tree row, that'll work too.

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RE: Rut hunting: Field Edges or Timber ?
 

Just be cognizant of where your scent's blowing. I don't hunt ANY stand if the wind's blwoing my scent towards a known bedding area. You're a smart guy....;)

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RE: Rut hunting: Field Edges or Timber ?
 

Because often a buck will take his doe out away from the herd and just stay with her during her estrous period. I had a property in IL several years ago, that had a little swale out in a cattle pasture with a few locust trees. In a two year period, I saw 3 different big bucks take does out to that spot and just stay there. You couldn't get to them without being seen.

RE: Rut hunting: Field Edges or Timber ?
 

I hunt a little clearing in the back corner of the woods during the rut. I set up about 25 yards off the property line as there is a thicket right across the fence. The does are thick in there and they like to bed in there after a night in the fields. During the rut, this is the ticket. The Bucks swarm this area looking for does and does that are being chased usually run in there.