Opening Day Setup

[bowhunterfanatic]

Let's hear what everyone's setup will be Saturday assuming you get the wind you want.

Me personally I'll either be sitting on a foodplot (south wind) or watching a salt lick in a natural travel area (north).

 

[cecil30-30]

They ahv been changing the wind here,so I guess i'll have to wait until the night before..its gone from a WSW to a WNW wind..Im sure by the time it gets here they'll be calling for a E wind..LOL

 

[jb3]

If I go, I will be either hunting an oak flat, just off a sloping ridge, or a saddle with a couple large oaks close by. The flat is mostly white oak and the saddle has a large red oaks. Will wait and see what the wind is doing that a.m. Baseball game that afternoon, so only morning hunt.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

On the end of a flat ridgetop that is full of southern red oaks that are dropping. Its also an edge between mature oaks and young pine plantation. Its a natural corridor and a food source. I have 2 stands up there for different winds, as long as its not a wind from the South, Ill be fine.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Will scout Friday afternoon. Will know where to set up on the locations I (hopefully) find by what the wind is doing when I wake up Saturday morning. If I find a good location Friday, ill try to find 3 trees at each location for different wind directions

 

[Ironsmith-Jared]

For my area that I am hunting Saturday. Midday water hole.

 

[Savage]

In the morning, a wooded logging road on the edge of a cedar thicket, and mature hardwoods, with a fence and several large white oaks within shooting distance.

In the afternoon, a creek crossing that connects a creek crossing to a large corn field... unless I see a bunch in the morning!

 

[bowriter]

I shall be up a tree no matter what the wind direction unless I just decide to sleep in. No matter what tree I am up, oak mast will factor in somewhere.

 

[turkeyhunter]

I have no set up, just going in blind going to climb a tree . I havent even made my mind up where Im gonna hunt.

 

[Pursuit Hunter]

It will be over acorns. Won't know which ones till I go scouting on Friday.

 

[taximan]

i wish i was going....our season doesnt start until oct 1...so good luck to you all, may your opening day be what you have been dreaming of, and safe!

 

[BowGuy84]

can i request y'all post pics of your oak set up sign...i.e. feeding sign that you find. PH usually does a great job of documenting this and it is hugely informative.

I'll be on an oak "backbone" tomorrow that is a natural funnel between two thickets leading to fields that has red and whites on them acorns are spotty but the traffic is always solid and the walk is 100 yards from the boat.

Will get some scouting time in saturday mid day...oaks are spotty up here.

 

[BHC]

Ill be sittin on a point peppered with oaks, deer travel to and from the south and down the poitn avoiding the steep drop off on the N side of the point. the point faces NW.. They are calling for a SW wind friday and a WNW saturday so I imagine itll be somewhere in between, as long as its from the west in be it SW or NW ill be fine. Sunday there say N wind and 41 degrees that morn ill be sittin over an oak flat between two bedding areas, and Sunday after Ill either sit on a food plot or go back to the flat....

 

[Kevin1876]

Assuming a Southern or Eastern wind, the same place I have taken two does the past two years around opening weekend (my first and only time out hunting two years ago and October last year). A small valley with a dry creek bed...several oaks on both sides. A pond a few hundred yards away and several trails that intersect.

 

[droptyne]

I have found a little funnel that the deer are using to go between a bedding area and a feeding area. One thing I have found is that you never know exactly where the deer will come from, there are trails everywhere. I have a trophy rock and a bunch of white oaks mixed with cedars. My stand has been set since last Saturday and my trail cam has a bunch of pics, mostly of does though.

 

[dbllung2]

Let's hear what everyone's setup will be Saturday assuming you get the wind you want.

Me personally I'll either be sitting on a foodplot (south wind) or watching a salt lick in a natural travel area (north).

I'll be where you wish you were! Don't come sneaking in on me!

 

[MUP]

My #1 stand loc, wind agreeable that is.

 

[348Winchester]

A place I call the sunken road. It's a natural corridor between a ridge point and an old grown up strip pit. I've taken doe, button, two four points, a ten point, a bobcat and a hog from there over the last 14 years. Lord only knows how many I've missed there!

 

[OnceMoreIntoTheFray]

In my ladder stand in a group of trees middle of a field. some of the trees are droppin acorns. Seen a bunch of doe, weird 3 point and tall 4 pointer while glassing the fields.

 

[rem270]

On my 6acre place of my buddies in an overgrown field full of cars, tires and all kind of scrap lol. The field butts up to a cornfield with thick woods all around it. Its not a lot of property but they come there alot.

 

[Elmer]

Over beans. More of a tradition this year because of acorns and cold weather. It's a middle field of 200 acres of beans. My stand sits on an inside corner where deer filter out

 

[huntfish4life]

goin up to a stand overlooking a nice trail into a field,gunna pop one when it hits the field

 

[ruger7mag]

It will be over acorns. Won't know which ones till I go scouting on Friday.

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