Favorite place to set up
 

What are your guys favorite places to hang that treestand? Hunting 30 yards off a food plot? Hunting in the thickest area you can find? Watching over a trail from a thicket to a cornfield? What is your most productive spot?

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I have several favorite tree stand locations on my land. One is at the beginning of an old logging road the cuts through the timber going from a corn field to another crop field. Another is a new logging road that comes off a corn field and turns and follows a creek creating a corner. I'm set up right past the corner. Also have two tree stands set up on 2 other corners just inside the timber bordering a crop field and another on a thick 1/2 mile long timbered fence row where there is one opening for the deer to come through. All are set up for easy entrance and exit, different wind directions and I have been successful on all these spots the past 5 years. You can't have too many favorites.

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Here are my favorites,


Funnels

Food source. I like hunting right at a white oak that is dropping.
I also like hunting at apple trees.

Depending, if it is a morning hunt I like hunting funnel areas that have trails returning to a bedding area.

I also like hunting trails, in the late afternoon,that lead to open fields if I've been watching deer enter that field in the early evening.

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Depend on the time of the year! I am a hards woods kind of guy which led to and from bedding areas! During the rut I like travel corridors between bedding areas! I love watching bucks chasing does right before the rut..........talk about a RUSH! Early in the year entrances to feeding feilds in the evening. Find what works best for you and capitalize!

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my favorite to hunt is where the deer are

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Anywhere I can go to get away from all the "BS" of everyday life!!!!!!!
But seriously, if I can find an area near a food source with plenty of sign and were different trails intersect, I like to get about 20 yards off the trails nearest to the food source.

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I would have to say my favorite place to set up is on an oak flat or oak ridge when the acorns are starting to fall. I believe the sound of the falling acorns attract the deer as well.

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Early season I like field edges, to catch them feeding, or to spot another trail they're using to get to the field. Later on I'm in heavy travel corridors. I try to stay away from bedding areas, I hate jumping bedded deer.

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My favorite stand locationfor archery season is catching the deer moving to and from food sources.

My favorite stand location for our high pressure deer seasons here in PA is finding the thickest security cover I can find and sitting from dawn to dusk. It's amazing how calmly the deer move in the middle of season in the thick stuff.

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I have three good tree stand spots and two ground bind sites.
One of my trrestands is near a ridge what I call dead does point it has a swamp off to my right and clearing to my left.
The other is in a oak holler where there are trails all over and a bedding area not too far away to my left.
The 3rd one is at the edge of a swamp where I can see them coming and going.
My two ground blindsare set-up in two seprate medows, one of them is kinda back in the thicket I may not see whats behind me too good but from right , left and center I got it covered real good.
The second ground blind is between two trees in the middle of a medow.

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Natural Funnels.

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My preference is on a fence-row that braches off a big woods. The deer will follow the fence-row in the morning and the evening to feed so they can have some cover.

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Funnels such as inside corners or wooded area's between clear cuts.Any thing that constricts their movement between area's they would naturally travel.
As the season progresses down wind of doe bedding area's is not a bad place to be!
Early season I like to be as close as I can get to buck bedding area's without bumping them.

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natural funnels and transition lines. can't hunt over bait here and no farm lands around...nothing like scoring the hard way!

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my favorite place is on a hydro line that has a tree plantation on each side of it along with a huge cedar swamp. About 200 yards northeast of the hydro (other side of plantation) there is a huge field. Deer cross the hydro going to the fields in the afternoons and you catch them crossing back over in the mornings.
I can cover about 500yrs worth of the hydro from the positon i have my tree stand.
I always seem to have good luck spotting game there

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funnels between feeding and bedding areas

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Hunting heavy trails in the woods where the deer are on there way to and from food plots

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My favorite place to set up is in a patch of oak trees when the acornsare falling.

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I wasn't thinking about that, our woods had tons of oaks and I always try to get into them

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In a warm truck near the fence line, light country music,ski, oatmeal pie- oh - just kidding?

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I have had very good luck hunting edges where several types of cover join together,say a thicket joining more open woods, Bucks seem to skirt these areas staying hidden and being able to see also.
Dan

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About 20 feet up. Deer or no deer. Just nice to get away.

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Where the sign is!

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For me , its a no brainer. During the deer season where I hunt, winter wheat is the only source of green food. The deer hang out in the river breaks and seldom move except at first light and late afternoons. Just do a little scouting to see where they are coming out onto which fields. Set up a ground blind at a range that your comfortable shooting and your set. Its darn easy hunting. After you drop your critter, you can drive right up to it to load.

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that kinda hunt'n sounds like a dream hunt to me...lol. we're use to having to drag your deer a good mile and a half back to the truck. deer carts are useless in most of our terrain due to the mud and palmetto roots.