Shoot2Kill
Active Member
For those of you who have the time, this might be fun for you while you wait for the Iowa season to open. Up here in MN the season has been open since the 15th. Until this weekend it was way too warm and windy. The temps finally dropped some and the deer have been very active during my evening hunts.
Here's the story. For the past two nights the deer have been coming out at around 7:15..giving me about 20 minutes to see my pins. However, they haven't been coming close enough until after dark (last night I sat in my stand for an hour past dark so I wouldn't spook them when I got down). It has been mostly does and fawns early, but Sunday night there was 1 basket rack 8 that came out with the does followed by a beautiful, tall and heavy 8 that makes it into the field about with about 10 minutes left for me to see my pins. Here is a map I just created of where I'm hunting.
[image]http://www.iowawhitetail.com/photopost/data/509/4505Public_Ground1.bmp[/image]
Okay, don't laugh, I'm no artist.
So here's the deal. I've been sitting in stand site A..the red dot. It is a textbook stand site. Perfect tree with lots of background, 10 yards from the side of both fields, and the stand itself is about 23 feet off the ground. The majority of the deer have been coming into the Thistle/Alfalfa field from trail 1 and a few does from trail 2. The bucks are coming in from trail 1. The timber where they are coming from is very dense with lots of underbrush. The timber behind me is nearly the same, making it very difficult to access the stand any other way than walking the edge of the field to get to my stand. Behind trail 2 is a big swamp.
Here is my question. I might be moving soon and want to nail that big eight..soon! I have a few options as I see it. I could stay in stand site A and hope he comes out early enough and makes his way to my stand. Or...I could make a ground blind at site B because there isn't a tree that will work for a stand. Option 3..put a stand in site C about 25 yards to the east of the trail they are using to come into the field. For the past 2 nights the deer have fed away from site C and toward site B. Option 4, try and find a place inside the timber on trial 1 to get him before he comes out.
For those of you still with me..thanks..and what would you do?
Okay...maybe my map is too big of file, because I can't get it to show up...but it is in my photo gallery or you can copy and paste the link for those you still interested.
Here's the story. For the past two nights the deer have been coming out at around 7:15..giving me about 20 minutes to see my pins. However, they haven't been coming close enough until after dark (last night I sat in my stand for an hour past dark so I wouldn't spook them when I got down). It has been mostly does and fawns early, but Sunday night there was 1 basket rack 8 that came out with the does followed by a beautiful, tall and heavy 8 that makes it into the field about with about 10 minutes left for me to see my pins. Here is a map I just created of where I'm hunting.
[image]http://www.iowawhitetail.com/photopost/data/509/4505Public_Ground1.bmp[/image]
Okay, don't laugh, I'm no artist.

Here is my question. I might be moving soon and want to nail that big eight..soon! I have a few options as I see it. I could stay in stand site A and hope he comes out early enough and makes his way to my stand. Or...I could make a ground blind at site B because there isn't a tree that will work for a stand. Option 3..put a stand in site C about 25 yards to the east of the trail they are using to come into the field. For the past 2 nights the deer have fed away from site C and toward site B. Option 4, try and find a place inside the timber on trial 1 to get him before he comes out.
For those of you still with me..thanks..and what would you do?
Okay...maybe my map is too big of file, because I can't get it to show up...but it is in my photo gallery or you can copy and paste the link for those you still interested.
