Terminology
 

I am relatively new to deer hunting and would like some definitions, explained. They are Draws, Hollows, and Bottoms. Thanks for your help.

RE: Terminology
 

I'll try my best, someone else feel free to chime in!!
1. Draw: generic term, usually a low spot in the terrain

2. Hollow: also a low spot, but usually bigger than a draw and between ridges

3. Bottoms: usually a short cut for "creek bottoms", most people consider the "bottoms" to be a creek and the surrounding hardwood.

Hope this helps!

RE: Terminology
 

Okay here is another.

What is a gulley?



The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

RE: Terminology
 

Taz, a gulley is bigger than a ditch but smaller than a valley.

RE: Terminology
 

yes a gulley will wash out of a hillside, though i suppose they could appear on mountains as the beginnings of a valley

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RE: Terminology
 

Sometimes we call a "gulley" with trees growing in it a "finger," meaning a short, lateral extension of a valley into the surrounding hillside. One productive hunting method out in these parts is to have one or two people "walk the fingers" (which is where deer in these parts like to bed down) while the armed hunter stands alert on the surrounding highlands (which here, also tend to be flat, giving this hunting method an advantage). Often, the persons walking the fingers will not even see deer, but will unwittingly be causing them to spill out all over the highlands. The trick is to walk slowly enough so that the deer creep out of the fingers rather than burst out. Shots at running deer are not taken (by folks hunting with me this way, that is).

RE: Terminology
 

Okay let us take it even further:

What is a stream?
A creek?
A river?
A pond?
A lake?

The reason I ask these is because having lived in quite a few different places throughout the country, many of these are totally different, what we call a creek down home many places would call river, what some places call a creek we would call a stream. It can be very confusing readin an article if they have no pictures to determine what size or type of water is being spoken of.

Oh BTW down home a gulley is usually an area that at one time had washed out and is now overgrown. A wash is just that, an area that is washed out with little or no growth.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

RE: Terminology
 

Hey Tazman, you forgot &quot;crick&quot;! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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A lake is bigger than a pond are are totally different from the other 3 in which a river is bigger than a creek which is bigger than a stream. Atleast that is how I see it. A &quot;crick&quot; is what you get in you neck when you pass out sitting up right drunk on your couch.

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Tazman, a pond here is what you have in your backyard with fish in it. However I am assuming a pond is what we refer to as a Slough!!! A slough is a contained body of water usually oblong or round in shape, it usually is shallow, gaurded be trees, natural grasses or/and bullrushs (reeds/cattails) and doesn't have any fish in it....AKA Pond. Streams and creeks are basiaclly the same here small feeders connecting to rivers or lakes. River, I think the same as you know it, fast flowing, etc. Lake is a naturally feed lake with aquatic life that includes fish and Lot's cost 20,000...if not than it is a slough...hehe!

Draws are as stated.
Hollows we refer to as bowls...but the same as stated.
Bottoms are the rear portion of the anatomy...aka a$$.LOL