Favorite Locations

[musketman]

Every fishin' man and woman has their favorite "honey hole" to go to, same goes for hunting...

Is there a favorite "SPOT" that you go to every season?

Are humans creachers of habbit? Like salmon, we return to the same spot every year in hopes of doing well...

Is there a real need to seek out "NEW" spots in lieu of game, or are you content with what you have right now?

 

[roundball]

I'm very lucky to have built up relationships over the past 10-12 years with three farmers who let me hunt their otherwise posted farms.

Each is a typical few hundred acre farm of fields and woodlots and wooded ravines acting like funnels between various fields and woodlots, etc.

They alternate crops in the fields but each farm usually has a field or two of soybeans, the rest tobacco.
So far the deer don't smoke, but they lay around the edges of those soybean fields right through the rut.

I put treestands up on each farm, some are morning stands, some afternoon stands, and usually rotate around through them during the season.

Last season was different because a huge clearcut was made on one of the farms, and it radically changed their travel plans, concentrating them into a narroow 50yd wide corridor Oak flat that also produces a lot of acorns...took all four bucks from the same treestand in this travel corridor from November 10-19.

I'll put up all my other treestands like I normally do, but that cleearcut should still be having an effect so I'm sure that's where I'll be opening day...then just take it from there...if they're still being forced through that narrow travel corridor it should be another piece of flintlock heaven!

 

[Rebel]

For the past 7+ years i have been fortuante enough to live 18 miles out of town on 300 acres that borders a large section of BLM land. I can go out my backdoor and shoot, and if i wanted to, could take my deer each year in the back yard. I don't do that though, as the ones by the house are just there to be observed, unless that is, times got really bad and we needed the meat. But i do hunt on the 300 acres up behind and the BLM land, mostly on it. There are deer, doves, quail, rabbits, and even a few antelope. Also have a river right across the road to fish in, so i really don't need to go somewhere else, especially with the current gas prices.

 

[cayugad]

I live in the middle of the Chequamegon National Forest. My land is bordered by the forest which is open to all hunting, fishing, hiking, snowmobile trails, atv riding trails, etc. I also have access to a number of private sections of land and farms, but for the most part I hunt my own section that I own and live on. All I have to do is go out the back door and walk the roads I have cut through the woods (which the deer like to travel in deep snow or when scared) and I have tree stands built in key spots such as creek beds, and skid trails, etc where my land meets the National.

In my back yard I have my own personal target range out to as far as 88 steps which amounts to about 90 yards. So shooting is not a problem or hunting. In fact some of the time if you look out the windows of the house you will see deer, bear, grouse, squirrels, rabbits and even turkey which they just planted behind my place... ::.

So for huning, yes I return to a favorite location. I have one stand in particular that has never let me down, and always filled the freezer when I wanted...

 

[oneshot]

I just go out behind the House,if I get bored with that I go across the road to 8,000 acres of state ground.

Oh I have 3 Major Lakes and a Trout Stream within 20 minutes of the House.

oneshot

 

Before we sold our farm, moved to Wyoming, then 3 years later moved back to Missouri, yup....the wife and I had our "favorite places" on the farm. Guaranteed 2 nice deer before 7:00 AM opening morning. After that we hunted antlers. We didn't always get them but we had the privelege of watching all kinds of wildlife for a few hours every morning we were hunting. Often times that was better than taking a deer. I'm confident our new place will be just as good after a few years.

Vic

 

[swquiro]

Most of my life I hunted over in West-by-God, but since moving to Virginia I have gotten permission to hunt several small, but very productive, areas. My favorite spot is located, believe it or not, 45 miles from the nation's capital. It has deer up the jig-poop. There is only one proviso - Im not allowed to shoot bucks there. The owners of the land like to see the bucks, and Im not about to abuse the privledge. That's where I go for my table fare. I get a lot of enjoyment out of watching the bucks mill around. They seem to know they are off limits. I get all the deer I need during the early ML season and dont even go out during regular season

 

[Stumpkiller]

I have a ground blind I pulled together about 24 years ago on the edge of some 3,000 acres owned by a furniture company. It is at a natural funnel near a ravine that leads to heavy cover on the side of a hill. Unless I have something more specific in mind I sit there and wait; but some days I just don't feel like sitting.