Need help with stand placement
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Boone & Crockett
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Hate to say it, but it is almost impossible to say with only an aerial to look at. What fields are planted, where are the bedding areas, if they are tree stands then where are there sufficient trees, etc. You need to get on the ground and do a lot of scouting now if this is the first time on the property. Look for old scrapes especially along field edges and old roads, that is the key to finding the bucks during the rut.
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Spike
Joined: May 2011
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#4
Typical Buck
Joined: Apr 2011
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From: Northern WI
Find someone you know with a bit of experience at this to help you out, walking with your through the areas. Most avid hunters will enjoy helping you on this, especially if you can make/buy them a nice lunch or dinner after.
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and really, just do a lil research on tracks...and go out yourself, look around..game trails are blatantly clear..just remember, there is no high school using this land as a track team practice area?
if ya spook up some deer, don't stop, continue on your path and act like ya don't see em...they'll just be wondering "wth that was".
If yer staying outside the tree line, you're missin out.
find some waters edges and look fer tracks...find the trails, make a mental map..try and find the bottle necks...
ya wanna be above the trail in the morning, and below it at night...
having am blinds and pm blinds is a good idea fer anyone...when ya look at the sun going down, its hard to see anything in front of it...same concept, your using the sun as cover...black hole if you will..so a westerly blind in the evening, everything east of ya cant see the blind,(circumstances vary..c'mon this aint science, do a lil experimenting) much less see inside the blind where the gun is shaking outta control putting everyones lives in danger cause ya got buck fever...ooopppss
anyways..it looks like a couple lil sections of land...(ya might wanna take a gps..so ya dont get lost..plan on gettin out 3 hours b4 dark..jic..nk..) just get out on it...spend the weekend there..take the fam...do a lil shooting...nature walk with the fam..the kids will be all into findin em tracks...maybe they teach you something. family dog always knows where the action is..
never...never ever hurts to carry a side arm.




