#1842138 - 03/17/10 03:00 PM
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When your looking for a spot to hang a stand which terrain feature seems to work best for you.
I like narrow ridge tops preferably with steep deep washes on both sides. Something I can sit to either side and shoot across with my bow. I believe my scent rises in the morning with the thermals and will follow the wash down the ridge away from me in the evening.
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#1842152 - 03/17/10 03:06 PM
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I only hunt funnels..so, once I get 'em patterned I try to hunt where I can oversee a few coming together...some for morning, some for evening...I'm speaking of archery hunting.
Gun hunting, I hunt the exact same spot every year because at least 10 funnels come into the area...it's on a hill overlooking a field and boths sides down into a holler....and, I can shoot a long distance, I have to be there every day because in my area they cycle and I have no "home grown" bucks to speak of...here today, gone tomorrow....
I don't hunt food plots or natural food, water, salt, trophy rock....I just hunt the area, wherever that may be, where funnels come together regardless of terrain.
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#1842268 - 03/17/10 04:17 PM
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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I love thickets no matter where they are and if I can find where several different ecolines come together that's the ticket for me
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#1842304 - 03/17/10 04:39 PM
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Funnels. I got a ridge that acts just like an exit or entrance ramp. It is not a steep grade even though the other sides of the ridge are steep. The bedding area is about 150 yds from the ramp. Deer coming to or from the fields tend to use this ramp. It pinches together at one point and is about 50 yds wide. I have two stands on it to compensate on which way wind is blowing. This is my archery setup.
For rifle, I move to the top so I can see and cover more ground.
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#1842335 - 03/17/10 04:57 PM
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Saddle or bench.... is what I like to hunt.... Creek crossing are pretty good also...
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#1842482 - 03/17/10 06:15 PM
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I like horse shoes in a ridge they funnel deer into a smaller area for bowhunting.
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#1842505 - 03/17/10 06:42 PM
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im gonna start archery hunting from my boat.
Ive figured out that deer dont actually reside on lbl during daylight hours...
so my best shot at harvesting a mature buck would be to try and catch em coming across the channel going back to christian and trigg co. to lay down for the day.
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#1842506 - 03/17/10 06:43 PM
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Clear cuts with a hardwood border. I hunt the transition between these areas.
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#1842520 - 03/17/10 06:54 PM
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im gonna start archery hunting from my boat.
Ive figured out that deer dont actually reside on lbl during daylight hours...
so my best shot at harvesting a mature buck would be to try and catch em coming across the channel going back to christian and trigg co. to lay down for the day.
So your terrain feature is the channel? Got room for 1 more on that boat. LMBO You can give me a call at home this evening nate.
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#1842530 - 03/17/10 07:00 PM
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im gonna start archery hunting from my boat.
Ive figured out that deer dont actually reside on lbl during daylight hours...
so my best shot at harvesting a mature buck would be to try and catch em coming across the channel going back to christian and trigg co. to lay down for the day. So your terrain feature is the channel? Got room for 1 more on that boat. LMBO You can give me a call at home this evening nate.
im at work now...
i gotta work all night so ill try and catch u tomorrow evening.
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#1842537 - 03/17/10 07:07 PM
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When your looking for a spot to hang a stand which terrain feature seems to work best for you.
I look for tiny little bumps! Some fresh and some old. These tiny little bumps are AKA deer poop. If I can find that "terrain" feature, that is where I want to hunt.  If I can find deer poop on the edge of a 4-5 year old thicket, I really get excited. The sad thing is, I'm so bad at scouting, I rarely find all both those features at one spot. When I have (4 times), I have killed 3 deer. 
Bumps too.
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#1842582 - 03/17/10 07:37 PM
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i like edges......funnels also, but edges seem to attract me.....
By edges, I mean a place where the cover changes in the least bit....
For example......cutover to hardwood, open canopy swamps near fields.
If i can ever find three different types of cover in one ever, I'm ecstatic.....
My most productive place ever was a strip of hardwoods no more than 100 yards wide between a swamp and a bean field.....
it was like heaven ......
I hung my stand about midway of the hardwoods and just sit back and WATCHED THE PARADE.....
also, I rarely sit on a field . If I hunt a field, I'm usually insde the woods about 50 yards or so......
sometimes I will hunt a field . I did some this year......mostly gun season though and especially if I'm just NOT SURE where to hunt inside the woods....
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#1842595 - 03/17/10 07:41 PM
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Funnels,as best I can,OR, A HOT DROPPING WHITE OAK!
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#1842844 - 03/17/10 09:14 PM
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Narrow ridgelines and sides of steep hills. Thickets on the ridges are a plus.
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#1842848 - 03/17/10 09:15 PM
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Edges. Thick stuff, the thicker the better and if I can find a funnel that works into it, perfect. Old overgrown fields or fields that have progressed to small sapling sized trees that border hardwoods and hopefully an old barbed wire fence line with one spot where the fence is down. If it doesn't have one, I'll make one, as long as it's really an abandoned fence. Would never cut a working fence. But I avoid open woods or fields.
I have found that the areas where the pine beetle has killed all the pines and is now thick honeysuckle and small trees are my kind of thickets.
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#1843215 - 03/18/10 06:19 AM
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I love to hunt just outside of a thicket on a hardwood ridge that has a saddle crossing about 2/3 the way up the ridge. Seems the deer like to cruise up thru the thicket and come out close to the saddle and cross the ridge thru it, then filter across feeding.
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#1843248 - 03/18/10 06:53 AM
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Man all these spots sounds sweet!
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#1843684 - 03/18/10 11:28 AM
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A gap in a strip mine high wall.
Dead end ridges.
A hilltop hub.
Any edges of clearcuts, especially combined with a terrain funnel.
Creek crossings.
Heads of deep hollows.
Deep saddles in ridges or mountains.
Inside corners of fields, especially combined with a terrain funnel.
Beaver pond dams.
Overgrown fence rows.
Junctions/ forks of hollows.
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#1843699 - 03/18/10 11:37 AM
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Narrow funnel connecting 2 or more large tracts is one that comes to mind!
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#1843910 - 03/18/10 01:59 PM
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#1843940 - 03/18/10 02:21 PM
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#1844252 - 03/18/10 07:35 PM
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I like many features, but it's hard to beat cuts in the bluff line at the top of the mountain where deer travel up and down the mountain.
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#1844994 - 03/19/10 06:07 AM
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I like many features, but it's hard to beat cuts in the bluff line at the top of the mountain where deer travel up and down the mountain.
Man, I used to be able to hunt a spot like that. There was deer sign galore at the top just as the cut opened up onto a ridge. Always a ton of sign in that area, but I was too young and dumb to make the most of it, as it was a good hour walk thru the gulf and up the other side to get to it, and that was just too far in the dark for me at the time! Skeered! 
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#1845646 - 03/19/10 04:21 PM
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Hardwoods, and fields.
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#1845801 - 03/19/10 07:05 PM
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When your looking for a spot to hang a stand which terrain feature seems to work best for you.
My favorite terrain feature is a descending secondary point dropping down and away from a high ridge-top. And if possible, a "knob" on a ridgeline from which multiple secondary points drop away.
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#1845845 - 03/19/10 08:12 PM
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Do you have any topo examples?
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#1846537 - 03/20/10 10:33 AM
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Do you have any topo examples?
Although this isn't the perfect example (the map was made for an article on a different topic) the pinkish-red areas on the map are secondary points. For whatever reason, I find deer like using secondary points much more than primary points (points that are the terminal end of a ridgeline). And if I can find a spot where several secondary points descend from nearly the same spot on a ridgeline, I know I've got a hot-spot. In fact, I will try to create "highly preferred" habitat (food plot or thick cover) in these locations to enhance their use by deer.
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#1846545 - 03/20/10 10:43 AM
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Very helpful, thanks BSK.
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#1846550 - 03/20/10 10:46 AM
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Anyone else got a topo example of their favorite terrain feature?
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#1846680 - 03/20/10 02:12 PM
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This has to be one of the best threads I have followed in a long time. Very rarely do I copy and past info from TnDeer, but almost 100% of this thread is now saved in my Word Hunting Folder.
Thanks for all the great info guys!
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#1847855 - 03/21/10 03:11 PM
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saddles are my favorite and where I have most success.
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#1847865 - 03/21/10 03:17 PM
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I like many features, but it's hard to beat cuts in the bluff line at the top of the mountain where deer travel up and down the mountain.
That's what I look for in BSF for hogs. Don't deer hunt there but I bet it's the same with deer.
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#1848428 - 03/21/10 07:41 PM
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#1849305 - 03/22/10 10:35 AM
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When your looking for a spot to hang a stand which terrain feature seems to work best for you.
My favorite terrain feature is a descending secondary point dropping down and away from a high ridge-top. And if possible, a "knob" on a ridgeline from which multiple secondary points drop away.
Say what BSK?
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Thanks for the ideas!
