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Old 07-20-2006 | 12:38 AM
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How do you all like to hunt/scout thick woods in elevations 2000-5000.?
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Old 07-20-2006 | 01:54 AM
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How do you all like to hunt/scout thick woods in elevations 2000-5000.?
Below or above sea level?
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Old 07-20-2006 | 02:50 AM
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Closest I can get to5000 feet is via airplane. Most mountain tops around me are only 2000 to 2500.
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Old 07-20-2006 | 03:14 AM
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Sounds like fun, where are you talking about?
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Old 07-20-2006 | 07:03 AM
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In Florida the closest we can get is 345 feet...........
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Old 07-20-2006 | 09:18 AM
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In Indiana about the highest elevation I can think of is 900 feet , we don't have hills that high and we certainly don't have mountains . We do have some pretty thick woods though . This is the view from my favorite ground blind:

That's considered light woods for here .
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Old 07-20-2006 | 09:20 AM
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I often hunt paper company lands in northern Maine and New Hampshire. Most places are between 1000-3000 feet above sea level. The woods are thick and are comprised of a mix of hardwoods and conifer. I like to focus on the sags and saddles that are near the peaks. I find the larger deer like to cross through the saddles. I am a tracker and usually hunt in snow so those areas deserve most of my attention. Bucks will scrape in the more open transition areas of a saddle and often bed on the lip facing a steep slope with the wind at their backs.
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Old 07-20-2006 | 02:47 PM
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Im hunting in a part of the washington cascades. Most elevations ABOVE SEA LEVEL are at the 2000-3000 range, but some can get pretty high. just want to know how you all like to hunt thick woods.
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Old 07-20-2006 | 02:50 PM
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i hunt in nc and not to high above sea level but defenetly thick
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Old 07-20-2006 | 03:09 PM
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i hunt in nc and not to high above sea level but defenetly thick
Go to North Western NC on the Tenn. border.
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