what would you do?

[travle]

Got a new lease, and was late getting a stand up. Finally put it up atop a flat on a ridge with at least one heavily traveled trail (or so it appears). I put my camera out a long that trail. I have hunted it 3 times and 2 times seen deer from the stand. Nothing yet coming down that trail. After a week I checked my camera this morning and had one picture of a doe coming down that trail. Should I stick with it and maybe let them adjust to the new stand (it is a lock on and not a ladder). Just don't understand why there is the worn out trail all the way Dow this ridge and no deer using it.

 

[Mike Belt]

How old is the trail? It may be one that is heavily used during a certain time frame but not right now. Food sources could have changed travel for instance. If it's a heavy trail it also isn't where you're going to intercept an older buck.

 

[gator-n-buck]

You never know and that's the beauty of hunting. You might stay there and see no deer or move and have a big buck walk by that location.

Nothing like having a camera showing you a big buck walking by your old location when you decided to move locations. Been there...

 

[travle]

I'm not sure the age of the trail. I guess I will find out for sure when the leaves fall. The main sources are corn which still hasn't been cut and the trail in question travels in the direction of the corn field. And soybeans which have been cut and in front of me. I have seen the same 2 does morning and evening traveling from and to the direction of the beans. I have seen deer from the stand they Just aren't traveling in bow range. By the looks of it my stand is in between those 2 does food source and bedding area. My stand is in a small patch of hardwoods surround by pine trees with thick cover behind me and to my left.

 

[in the dog house]

Might be that there using the corn right now to move and once its cut they will be all over the trail your on. With corn still standing it makes it tough. They can bed and eat in it only having to leave to drink. I bet when that corn is cut they will be back using that trail. Best of luck!

 

[Winchester]

Personally not a trail hunter myself. I think u would be better suited hunting a food source now and travel corridors later on. Just my opinion.

 

[Tennessee Lead]

Nothing like having a camera showing you a big buck walking by your old location when you decided to move locations. Been there...

Or when you hunt till 10:30 and have to leave for a Birthday party and at 10:56 you get a picture of him!

 

[travle]

I've always hunted fields. with the new lease I wanted to go different. This area seems more of a funnel area as I have seen deer coming through the area from different directions just not bow range. There are several trails in and out, but this trail I haven't seen anything come down really stood out to be the main trail to me. And I would personally rather hunt a trail or near trails if I'm sitting in the woods trying to bow hunt. I will just wait the corn out. See how that goes. If not by then It will be muzzleloader season. If I decide to move I will just utilize my pop up blind.

 

[megalomaniac]

Move your stand.

Try to find where the trail leads to where the deer are actively feeding and post up there.

Or leave that stand in place and hunt it mid Nov.... that's when it'll get a fair amount of use.

 

[REM7]

Move your stand.

Try to find where the trail leads to where the deer are actively feeding and post up there.

Or leave that stand in place and hunt it mid Nov.... that's when it'll get a fair amount of use.

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[travle]

I'm going to leave the stand and move on my next trip. I can't hunt the bean field cause it isn't on the lease and as of yesterday the corn was still in. I found a spot on my way out I would like to try.