Is this considered a saddle?
06-10-2013, 04:30 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,462
I was going to post that on your other thread but I think it is. I think that would be a great place to put a stand as well. I'd like it to have more of a drastic elevation change but I think that would be a great spot during the rut.
06-10-2013, 05:14 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Here's a link with a great explanation of the various terms, including saddle, along with pictures showing the terms when using a topographic map:
http://www.map-reading.com/ch10-6.php
http://www.map-reading.com/ch10-6.php
06-10-2013, 06:33 PM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: North Central Illinois
Posts: 848
And yes, the terrain feature indicated on the map would be a saddle,
06-11-2013, 09:36 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,445
The area you pointed out is a saddle, but as you have observed, not much of one. There is a more pronounced saddle back down the ridge to the SSE of the one you noted, just to the right of the "BM 1049".
Saddles can be great, or they can just be a saddle. Deer need a reason to want to cross the ridge, and then the saddle becomes the natural crossing because it takes less energy to cross the ridge in a low-point.
I look for a saddle, and then I look for the place within the saddle where a "bench" in the side-hill (think of it as a landing in the middle of a run of steps) runs into the saddle.
Benches, like ridge tops, are great natural travel ways, and are often great feeding areas too. The combination of a bench, ridge-top and a saddle is hard to beat for all day sits in early November.
Saddles can be great, or they can just be a saddle. Deer need a reason to want to cross the ridge, and then the saddle becomes the natural crossing because it takes less energy to cross the ridge in a low-point.
I look for a saddle, and then I look for the place within the saddle where a "bench" in the side-hill (think of it as a landing in the middle of a run of steps) runs into the saddle.
Benches, like ridge tops, are great natural travel ways, and are often great feeding areas too. The combination of a bench, ridge-top and a saddle is hard to beat for all day sits in early November.
Last edited by UncleNorby; 06-11-2013 at 09:39 AM.
06-11-2013, 10:01 AM
#9
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 55
The area you pointed out is a saddle, but as you have observed, not much of one. There is a more pronounced saddle back down the ridge to the SSE of the one you noted, just to the right of the "BM 1049".
Saddles can be great, or they can just be a saddle. Deer need a reason to want to cross the ridge, and then the saddle becomes the natural crossing because it takes less energy to cross the ridge in a low-point.
I look for a saddle, and then I look for the place within the saddle where a "bench" in the side-hill (think of it as a landing in the middle of a run of steps) runs into the saddle.
Benches, like ridge tops, are great natural travel ways, and are often great feeding areas too. The combination of a bench, ridge-top and a saddle is hard to beat for all day sits in early November.
Saddles can be great, or they can just be a saddle. Deer need a reason to want to cross the ridge, and then the saddle becomes the natural crossing because it takes less energy to cross the ridge in a low-point.
I look for a saddle, and then I look for the place within the saddle where a "bench" in the side-hill (think of it as a landing in the middle of a run of steps) runs into the saddle.
Benches, like ridge tops, are great natural travel ways, and are often great feeding areas too. The combination of a bench, ridge-top and a saddle is hard to beat for all day sits in early November.
