Where you hunt?
11-25-2010, 02:15 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Pensacola Florida
Posts: 326
Where you hunt?
I was just wondering what kind of land most people are hunting on these days? Private Land/Farms? WManagement Areas/Public Land?
Hunting Leases? and How much acre'age are you hunting? I keep seeing these huge bucks on cams and bucks that have been killed daily. I wanna know what your hunting? Big Woods? Plots? Scrapes? Rub Lines? Funnels? Bait? Someone Help me!
Hunting Leases? and How much acre'age are you hunting? I keep seeing these huge bucks on cams and bucks that have been killed daily. I wanna know what your hunting? Big Woods? Plots? Scrapes? Rub Lines? Funnels? Bait? Someone Help me!
11-25-2010, 03:00 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MO
Posts: 643
This year I'm only hunting our family farm which is 140 acres (50 woods and 90 fields). I have several small food plots scattered around. I hunt the food plots early season and hunt pinch points this time of year. Will switch back to food towards the end of December.
I normally hunt our lease in IL but I'm not going over there this year. I usually hunt public land in MO and IL as well.
I'll get back into the swing next year and hit all three.
I normally hunt our lease in IL but I'm not going over there this year. I usually hunt public land in MO and IL as well.
I'll get back into the swing next year and hit all three.
11-25-2010, 03:17 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: howard,carroll,clinton co,in
Posts: 145
i also hunt family land ..I live in town so its the only place i have for now.It's not alot of land but there isnt anyone hunting around me for about 2mi.its a funnel from a field with a patch of woods and a small creek through it.It hasnt let me down yet!
11-25-2010, 04:31 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Pensacola Florida
Posts: 326
Ya I used to hunt a lease growing up and it had alot of pressure around it so we could never get big bucks because the people around us were not on the same management plans as us. They were shooting anything and everything that walked! Ehh, and Only being 400 acres and a weird shape it was bordering alot of Cattle fields with shooting houses in the middle shooting every day. On numerous occasions I would let a small 6 or 8 walk and a few minutes later here a shot right on top of me. I would walk to the fence line and the Ole boy would be dragging the buck I just passed behind the 4 wheeler.....Now, On my private land behind my house Its in a Urban are that backs up to probally 150 acres. There are does all back in there and small bucks here and there. The biggest one I Got on my trail cam last year was a 6 point and he was probally only 13 inches wide. What can I do about this? I think the Genetics are horrible back there. .....
On my other time I hunt some Public land that has alot of pressure. There is alot of planted pines that are very very very over grown and thick! and Alot of swamp on the other half. there aint very many plots but where there is, there is thick cover around just hard to get back in there. What would yall do for all these places. Need help
On my other time I hunt some Public land that has alot of pressure. There is alot of planted pines that are very very very over grown and thick! and Alot of swamp on the other half. there aint very many plots but where there is, there is thick cover around just hard to get back in there. What would yall do for all these places. Need help
11-25-2010, 05:10 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: S.Illinois
Posts: 333
Ya I used to hunt a lease growing up and it had alot of pressure around it so we could never get big bucks because the people around us were not on the same management plans as us. They were shooting anything and everything that walked! Ehh, and Only being 400 acres and a weird shape it was bordering alot of Cattle fields with shooting houses in the middle shooting every day. On numerous occasions I would let a small 6 or 8 walk and a few minutes later here a shot right on top of me. I would walk to the fence line and the Ole boy would be dragging the buck I just passed behind the 4 wheeler.....Now, On my private land behind my house Its in a Urban are that backs up to probally 150 acres. There are does all back in there and small bucks here and there. The biggest one I Got on my trail cam last year was a 6 point and he was probally only 13 inches wide. What can I do about this? I think the Genetics are horrible back there. .....
On my other time I hunt some Public land that has alot of pressure. There is alot of planted pines that are very very very over grown and thick! and Alot of swamp on the other half. there aint very many plots but where there is, there is thick cover around just hard to get back in there. What would yall do for all these places. Need help
On my other time I hunt some Public land that has alot of pressure. There is alot of planted pines that are very very very over grown and thick! and Alot of swamp on the other half. there aint very many plots but where there is, there is thick cover around just hard to get back in there. What would yall do for all these places. Need help
I'd think about some doe management for one,and if you have room a good food plot,food is king,if your state allows feeding use a good quality feed like Big and J industries something with a lot of protien in it will help grow bigger deer!
If you can do both,you may even pull deer in from surrounding areas!
Good luck!
11-26-2010, 02:51 AM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: West TN
Posts: 286
I hunt on my land or my neigbors land. Combined its probably well over 300 acres. Today I'm goint to hunt the foodplot about 350 yards from my back door has been where the monster bucks have been chasing doe and other than that I like to hunt a funnel that's bordering an old landfill that got shutdown and is off limits to anyone. It only has a couple of ways for the deer to get out. My stand is facing towards a small 5ft gap they left in the back towards my land and we have another food plot about 100 yards to the left of that stand.
11-26-2010, 04:04 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: VA, USA
Posts: 3,116
I hunt my family's farm which is 110 acres and a family friend has a farm that is about 150 acres(2 other guys hunt this as well).
I also am a member in a hunting lease that has 1,166 acres and 15 members. Of those 15 only about 8 bowhunt and there are 2 or 3 that only hunt weekends and around Thanksgiving.
I also am a member in a hunting lease that has 1,166 acres and 15 members. Of those 15 only about 8 bowhunt and there are 2 or 3 that only hunt weekends and around Thanksgiving.
