Heaviest Cover Ever? (pics)

[LanceS4803]

While scouting a new area today, I tried to access known deer territory adjacent to a bean field from the back, through an area of several acres that had been clear cut several years ago.
This stuff was by far the thickest, nastiest stuff I have ever been in. Tall thick grasses, tons of briars and thorny vines, with saplings growing close together. I was using pruning shears just to take steps forward cutting briars. Most everything was 4'-8' high.
When lo and behold, I came upon a bedding area and thin trails snaking this stuff. I was amazed and can't believe an antlered buck could get through this.
No trees for a lockon or climber, and a ground blind would be useless. I decided to just take the easy way and direct approach from the other side.
Unless someone has a way to hunt this type of area, I'll just have to intercept at the field edges.

 

[mattmillard510]

Your best bet is use the wind, stay out of there and hunt the edges. Going in there causes more harm than good IMO


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[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

Your best bet is use the wind, stay out of there and hunt the edges. Going in there causes more harm than good IMO


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[Mike Belt]

That's one of the main problems where I hunt at Ames. Aside from having so much land and so many places they could be, much of our hunting land looks just like that. The deer could lay up in that stuff all hunting season and believe me, they learn to. If the Ames people didn't cut a few strips through some of it we'd never be able to see a deer in there (and they cut very little). Best bet is to try to hunt the fringes.

 

[csi-tech]

I have much worse than that. My hunting buddy from last year is still in it somewhere. Sometimes I can hear him yell ouch when he moves in the briers.

 

[catman529]

I've been through that kind of stuff and it's tough to hunt the wind cause they can come from anywhere and it's tough to find a clear enough spot to sit on the ground and nowhere for a treestand. A tripod against a cedar tree would be a good option but I'd stay somewhat close to the edges of the thicket and leave most of it a sanctuary for the deer.


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[Win94]

I have an area like that where I hunt. I used to go in there. I even cut part of what I could one year for an area for a small food plot. I had a tripod because like you said there was no place for a tree stand. I just kept busting deer out of there. I'm pretty sure they knew exactly when I was there and when I left. Now I just don't go in there anymore. I hunt a couple of trails that come out of that stuff into the woods. I'd leave them alone in their sanctuary, just find their route in/out.

 

[plinker22]

What others have said, sanctuary.

 

[LanceS4803]

Thanks everyone.
I had no idea they were bedding down in that small area, as I knew they had been using another spot several hundred yards away.
I came in from the field side and found a spot for my climber overlooking a creek crossing they are using. As a bonus, beaver are working the creek, so I'll have something to watch while sitting!

 

[Winchester]

Unless you move a Tripod in that's all you can do is hunt the edges.

 

[catman529]

Thanks everyone.
I had no idea they were bedding down in that small area, as I knew they had been using another spot several hundred yards away.
I came in from the field side and found a spot for my climber overlooking a creek crossing they are using. As a bonus, beaver are working the creek, so I'll have something to watch while sitting!

that creek crossing should be a great spot.


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[Mike Belt]

Over half the places at Ames like that are so thick you can't even get in there with a tripod. We have cover!!!!

 

[csi-tech]

I cut trails through that nastyness with my 5' bush hog this year. After cutting it greened up beautifully. I also made little, tiny cleared fields (20'X20') in random places. I would bet that brushing in a blind in something like that looking down a couple of those home made senderos would be worth the effort. My places are so grown up that if I declared the brush sanctuary I would own a giant no-hunt hunting property.

 

[LanceS4803]

That thick stuff just ends like a wall (in the background), into this creek area. To the left, the underbrush comes right to the creek edge. It's pretty tight against some private property, but doable. That is my new friend, the beaver swimming along. We need rain!
The exploring of the corner of this piece of property might just pay off.

 

[FLTENNHUNTER1]

One of the problems about going into areas like that is leaving your scent all over every blade you touch.

 

[LanceS4803]

Impossible not to in that stuff. My original plan (before I realized deer bedded there), was to come in from the downwind side through the tall grass.
I'm sure is some deer not to happy that I walked through his bedroom.