Anyone hunt on that is 40 acres or less?
 

Does anyone hunt on property like this and how do you manage it.

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You betcha Got one piece I hunt 28acres got a
140 buck off it last year,and two turkeys!![8D]

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How do you manage it? Is it a lease?

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Well In what ways to you mean manage, that word can mean a number of things?? I have hunted some spots less than 3 acres (it just happens to be a great spot!!) it is tuff, and I hang all stands well before the season, so the deer get use to it!

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I mean feeders and food plots. Do you put out feed? I mean for a small peace of land I guess you would want them coming there for a reason.

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Own a 40 acre cedar swamp that is surrounded on three sides by corn and alphalpha and one sides backs hardwoods that goes two miles. It's basically a gigantic funnel. It has been a hard place to hunt, there is no managing it. Throw some bait out and hope they come by, or hope you get a buck in rut coming by tailing the doe. They could be anywhere in there and literally have hundreds of different runs. It's a tough hunt on the inside. It's like another world in there though.

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thanks for your information

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My father has a 30 acre farm........and there is no way to do QDM on it !
But we plant about 2 food plots on it every year , it's got 2 acorn bottoms on it, a 3 acre pond and large tracks of land in front and behind it. The deer travel between the 2 tracks of land. A hunting club is behind it and they have killed many of the small bucks I passed on.......but that's life ! The hardest thing about hunting it ......is placing stands for different wind directions. The right wind knocks out 4 out of 5 of my stands ! [>:]

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I am planting a Bio Logic Food Plot this spring, but there is a Soybean field, going to be a Corn field this coming year on the property!

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I hunt on areas as small as 6 acres because the bucks seem to think no one will hunt them in areas that too small to hold a herd of deer. There is an old kmart in hillsboro, OH that has about 4 to 5 acres of woods behind it. One year we did a unarmed drive through it and we counted over 49 deer! No lie. And even then there were some running away that we couldn't count. Deer aren't always in the "Biggest" of woods.;)

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In a couple years, my goal is to buy about 10-15 acres. I would like to be close to the city I live in, so land is somewhat expensive. I want to build a house on it, 100 yards off the road and have woods all around. I would put out (2) 1 acre food plots. One on the back portion of the property where I could hunt on or around and one about 35 yards behind my house which would be a viewing plot only, overtime the deer would accept this as somewhat of a sanctuary, provided you stay off their bedding areas and don't spook them while they are in the plot. It would be awesome to watch deer feeding behind your house while eating at your kitchen table.

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My most productive stand is on a plot of land that is less that 3 acres. We own this small piece which used to be abutted but other parcels of land. Over the last 10 years about 15 houses have been built(urban sprawl). My honey hole still pulls deer in but now I have to deal with dogs and dog owners who don't care to control the pets[:@]. With all the development going on the deer have no choice but to pass thru my funnel. The only thing I have to do to manage my land is keep my neighbors out and keep in contact with animal control to keep their pets out.

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I have a place that is only 12 acres I have hunted for 3 years and killed 2 bucks off of it. As far as managing it goes it is not my land so there is nothing I can really do as far as QDM.

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Thanks guys this is good info. The thing is that I have a potential lease that is around 40 acres.
any more help would be great thanks

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I hunt two farms that have 15 acres of timber with a couple open areas in the middle of timber that is grown up in tall weeds, ideal bedding for deer. And I recently got permition to hunt a 40 acre tract that is about 20 acres of timber with 3 field throughout. There are tree lines separating all three. The fields are planted in wheat right now. The deer are hitting it hard too. I saw 10 last night. A small 6 ptr, a 2.5 yr old 8, and mature 10 that would go clost to 140. One of the other farms I hunt is part of a mile long line of trees with fields all around and tree lines that run on all sides of the fields. In all there is about 100 total acres of timber. I've had my trail cam out three different times and have pictures of 7 different bucks. All the way from a button to a huge 10 ptr with split g-2's, and another 10 that would go close to 150, an 8 that would score 130-140. And there are alot of good looking 1.5-2.5 yr. old deer. The other section of the timber is only hunted by one old man and he can't hit the broad side of a barn, plus he only gun hunts so I have the woods to myself for bow season. I'm planning on planting a food plot on the side of the property that I hunt to hopefully hold more deer on that side.

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WeVe had a 40 acre place for about 20 years. Two ponds and an A-frame cabin are on it. A big power line right-of-way plows right through it, which has actually always helped the hunting.

We have three small food plots and two feeders that, if kept up well, will keep game on the property all year.

Also, it's a hunting and fishing only kind of place. We don't go driving trucks all over the woods or go shooting rifles for no good reason, so the place stays pretty quiet. A horse farm is behind it, so their activity probably helps us out a little as well.

With this management, three bucks were taken off this plot in the '03 season, and many other untaken opportunities passed by us out there. Great for waterfowl and turkey, too.

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My self and a couple of friends hunt on two three acre tracts that are in a subdvision where
all lots are 3-4 acres. So far we have taken out a 6pt, small 8pt, and I took this 11pt.
We have also seen a mature 10pt and a 9pt that would go close to 140.
This is an awesome place but someone is wanting to build a new subdivision behind us so this may be the last year we get to see this kind of activity but it has been an incredible year so far.
We still have 5 days left!

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YUP.... one of the best pieces of land I ever hunted was 25 acres... long and narrow. Right now Len and I hunt 3 pieces that are 5 acres, one that's around 100 and one that's 265. We've taken an awful lot of deer off the 5 acre chunks. They're just passing through... but they do it every day twice a day.

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We hunted 50 acres this year(about half hay field and half hard wood forest) here in Indiana and shot two bucks, one was a decent 10 that would have made P&Y if it was shot with a bow and the other was a half rack 5 pointer. But with a place like it was it was extremely easy to over hunt.

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I hunt an 18 acre spread that is 2 pastures with treeline borders and one pond. Really good set up by mother nature. :D

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The two properties i hunt on is 10 acres of woods one place.. and 7 on the other.. the 7 acre land has one buck that can make the books.. seen him 4 times once 10 yards away but spooked him.. still see him.. just to far for a shot.. he'll soo screw up and be mine.. got till the 31st!:)

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Thanks for sharing your experience everyone.

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We have 32 acres of which 2/3 are wooded. There is a creek running along the bottom next to the road, then open acreage, then woods that go up a slope at a steep degree about 1200 feet. There are also a few springs so the deer have plenty of water in the summer. The woods are mostly maple, pine, oak and sassafrass. The does love to bed on the slope where the pine and maple intermingle with lots of deadfall. The bucks don't bed here - at least I have never spooked one out. They usually pass thru to bed somewhere else. We have a salt lick that is always out and we plan on getting a couple of mineral licks to set up. The open acreage has lots of apple and crabapple trees which we plan on pruning to get them to produce better. We would like to get an acre or two of good clover planted in the lower field but we don't have the means to dig up the ground yet. On good years we have a lot of acorns and apples but it's not enough to compete with neighborning corn fields. We've only been here seven years so we haven't had the chance to get things just the way we want. I don't think we have to do too much as long as the does prefer bedding here!;)

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We own a 31 acre piece of mountain land and haved kiled anywhere between 3-5 deer every year. The best thing to do is to get a food source on your property. If its mostly a bedding area then that's not too great because the more you hunt it, the more likely you spook the deer. Unless you treat the bedding areas as sanctuaries, then your small property could be a hotspot compared to other pressured parcels bordering your property. If its long and narrow like davidmil said then thats really good because deer have to cross it sometime. As small as that is you can't really do any trophy management unless the nearby landowners cooperate. The best bet is to hunt it as sparingly and as stealthily as possibly so the deer don't know you're there. Small places can be very productive.