Hey guys i need a litle help, first year deer hunting. Im hoping some one can tell me where to place my stand, i know its kinda of late. There is one stand set up in the south (black dot) but i think i need another. The wind this time of year comes from the nnw most of the time if that helps. Also when you walk to your stand should you try to go around the deer trails or just step over them. Thanks for the help.

well look for a trail coming from the heavy brush area and hunt that area. There should be some deer sign coming and going from food plots. If they are feeding on the cut bean field set up there. You may have to scout the areas for a couple days to figure out movement. With a wind coming from nnw just make sure it is hitting you in the face for the direction you are hunting. Look for tracks and droppings.

Can you add some topo lines?

Ill play...these three places depending on the wind

To add to GMMAT's statement...I chose those without knowing topo...some places it matters, others it doesnt. Ive spent enough mileslocating streams and wetlands prior to lay off, that some places topo comes in, some places, such as the place I hunt, they're going to go where to go without rhyme or reason. Its frustrating like that. Ive hunted other places where topo funneled them up.

I like these areas.

IMHO It looks like there are three habitat types close to the cut beans at the top of the picture. In my experience, this is a wildlife treasure. You have mature hardwoods, early successional growth, and ag fields. So I would set up in the travel corridor between the bean field and the hardwoods, on the left side of the picture, at the bottom of the open area below the bean field. Some scouting will reveal the trails, and remember, the bucks will often travel parallel to the doe trails until the rut, then they will probably travel across the doe trails. In the morning the deer are probably traveling to higher ground, and evening will bring them down hill, but they probably travel different trails in a.m. vs p.m. If you can find where they bed in the day vs night you can set up between the beds and food before the rut, then as rut gets going, set up between two doe bedding areas. Hope this helps, be careful, cause the first time you go in the woods will probably be your best chance to kill a trophy.

I agree!

hope this helps

Move my dot a little to the west to sit on the ridge between where those two draws come together. Just to the north of where those draws combine into one just north of the northwest corner of the field.