I haven't quite decided on my broadheads just yet, I was gonna shop around this summer, figure cabelas will have a sale or two, but I'll keep your recommendations in mind, again I really appreciate the help. I'll be home in may and have a chance to do some scouting then. Any scouting tips? lol thanks again!!!!

Not to worry! He's just doing a little trolling to stir the pot after he read my post saying to scout the next few months. He's just unhappy after the flap on the SSA politics thread where he disagreed with the "posse" and is now doing exactly what I asked him not to do! Anyway, scouting year around is a good way to know where and what the animals are doing at particular times of the year. They may or may not be in the same area now as they are during the hunting seasons and the only way to know is be out there as much as possible without actually disturbing the bedding areas if you are out to shoot a big buck.

Don't cheap out on broad heads. The good ones are expensive but well worth the price. A double lung pass through in Archery is about the best shot there is. They "spew" blood that way and you don't have to wait for the chest cavity to fill up and start "leaking" blood like you do with a dead heart shot. Makes for a better blood trail. If you cheap out and get poor performance BH's then you may not get a good pass through. Leaving the arrow in the hole plugging it up. Possibly less blood trail to follow.

This.

Knowing what the deer are doing is better than anything else.

I'll expand:

1.) Walk every fence line and deer trail on the property. Look for places where deer cross fences, creeks, get blocked by obstructions, etc. The really good thing to find is something that funnels deer into a certain point: things that create bottlenecks and pinch points. The deer have to go by there and downwind of them is where you want to be set up. Another good thing is if you can find two large blocks of woods connected by a narrow strip. The deer will use that strip of cover to travel between the two. Again, you'll want to be downwind.

2.) Find food sources and bedding areas. Generally speaking, deer tend to bed high and eat low. Here in Kansas, that often means they'll be eating in cropland in the creek bottoms at night and moving higher into adjacent woody hillsides to bed in the day. Find those food and bedding areas and the trails that connect them.

You'll want to be set up down wind, anticipating where the deer will be traveling. In the morning, you'll want to be closer to the bedding area, in the evening closer to the food. Don't go where the deer are, because you'll spook them. Go where they will be and set up an ambush.

Also, keep in mind that you'll need to consider varying winds and time of day. Think ahead of time about how you'll get to a stand. A stand that's dynamite in the evening might not be so good in the morning because getting to it means stumbling through the woods at night or walking right through the deer. With wind, it might mean that when it's coming from a certain direction, the stand will be useless as it blows your scent to a deer.

3.) Look at some aerial photos and drive around the area. Look at what the farmers are planting. You'll be amazed at what is revealed by seeing an overhead photo. If you can't scout, this will tell you a lot, though it's a never a substitute for boots on the ground.

4.) Try to figure out what other hunters might be doing (that might be your buddies). Hunters moving through the woods tend to push deer. Use that to your advantage.

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Figured I'd throw up a picture of our land to get y'all's opinion. I do know there are deer on the property, we've had some friends take a few off, there's a vineyard there now, not in the google sat view but there is and the deer love to eat the vines/grapes.

Thanks!!!!!!!

Just looking at that photo I'd be looking at that woods and what looks like may be a travel corridor ditch going to it.