WhackAndStack_CR337

Tomorrow at daylight im gunna be with my brother in law at a WMA (public land, for those who don't know) and im confident, somewhat, with my ability to choose good stand positions, but i was wantin to hear some wiser opinions

the land is more briars and brush than it is woods, and there's alot of woods. but the deer of course have trails through the brush (what im meanin is, basically tall, really thick fields). its not too thick to shoot through, but i dont like it lol..and the brush aint more than 6 foot high

what would be the best "tactic" for me going out tomorrow, im on my own - walkin and sittin by myself..im pretty set on finding the most wore out trail and sittin somewhere between 10-20 yards from it

any suggestions??

Huntinman23

if i were you i would take a ground blind out there, cover it up with some the brush out there, and sit in it off one of the beat down trails out there. or else find a tree out there that is close enough and big enough to put a stand in, sit back and enjoy the day

UncleNorby

You say you are with your brother in-law, but both hunting "alone". If that's the case, I suggest that you both take stands for the first few hours, but coordinate a strategy for a small 2-man push for later in the day.

In a very thick overgrown field, deer will often just avoid a man moving very slowly. They won't necessarily leave the cover. I'd have one guy sit on a likely escape trail, and the other move very slowly around the perimeter of the heavy cover. If nothing shows after the first pass, take another pass, this time in a tighter cirlce around the stander, and so on until the "driver" is within sight of the stander. With this tactic, both men are likely to get a shot at a walking deer.

Then, if nothing shows, find a good spot and sit until dark.