#1842520 - 03/17/10 06:54 PM
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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TN RDG RNR
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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nate17
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Loc: Illinois
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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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....
BH
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#1842595 - 03/17/10 07:41 PM
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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Registered: 10/22/07
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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DUCK37101
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Narrow ridgelines and sides of steep hills. Thickets on the ridges are a plus.
Edited by DUCK37101 (03/17/10 09:14 PM)
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#1842848 - 03/17/10 09:15 PM
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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citico_tim
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Loc: Knoxville, TN, USA
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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MUP
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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
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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BigWes50
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Registered: 03/04/07
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Loc: Chattanooga, TN
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Man all these spots sounds sweet!
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#1843684 - 03/18/10 11:28 AM
Re: Best Terrain Feature
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Registered: 09/03/08
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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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