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<blockquote data-quote="puppy" data-source="post: 5514111" data-attributes="member: 10317"><p>One of our leases has an overabundance of cover due to a lot of overgrown fields, saplings and cedar and pine thickets. My partner and I are considering a plan to bushhog ~3.8 acres of one of the overgrown field areas as soon as season is over and cut some 20-30 ft high cedars scattered in the area to open it up enough to allow more deer sightings. We will leave the patches of sumac saplings and other small trees just bushhogging around or over them. Attached is rough outline of what we want to do, circles are proposed stand sites for E or W winds and the purple areas are 2 old plots and trail connecting them that will probably bring back with WW for next fall in both plots and the trail. Depending on the amount of the cedars we drop we are also considering using the cut trees to funnel deer through the area as the reason we let the plots go was never knew where the deer would show up from as they tend to pop out of the thickets at random places (normally downwind)<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" />. Normally kill at least one mature buck per year off lease but with it being so thick actual deer sightings are low, although trail cams show a good population using our plots (do not actually hunt any plots to keep from spooking deer) and have another lease that is not connected but within 3/4 mile that has 3-4 times the actual sightings but is not near as thick. WHAT AM I MISSING??</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]161308[/ATTACH])</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="puppy, post: 5514111, member: 10317"] One of our leases has an overabundance of cover due to a lot of overgrown fields, saplings and cedar and pine thickets. My partner and I are considering a plan to bushhog ~3.8 acres of one of the overgrown field areas as soon as season is over and cut some 20-30 ft high cedars scattered in the area to open it up enough to allow more deer sightings. We will leave the patches of sumac saplings and other small trees just bushhogging around or over them. Attached is rough outline of what we want to do, circles are proposed stand sites for E or W winds and the purple areas are 2 old plots and trail connecting them that will probably bring back with WW for next fall in both plots and the trail. Depending on the amount of the cedars we drop we are also considering using the cut trees to funnel deer through the area as the reason we let the plots go was never knew where the deer would show up from as they tend to pop out of the thickets at random places (normally downwind):mad:. Normally kill at least one mature buck per year off lease but with it being so thick actual deer sightings are low, although trail cams show a good population using our plots (do not actually hunt any plots to keep from spooking deer) and have another lease that is not connected but within 3/4 mile that has 3-4 times the actual sightings but is not near as thick. WHAT AM I MISSING?? [ATTACH type="full"]161308[/ATTACH]) [/QUOTE]
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