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huntn4life88
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So I need your guys help on where I should hunt this weekend for shotgun season. We hunt in Decatur County kind of by Decatur City. With it being so cold this weekend I'm trying to decide where I should be hunting this weekend. We have 186 acres, 80 is CRP with food plots and a bean field, and 86 is timber with some monster ravines through it.
1) sit in a stand that we usually kill some does and have killed 3 really nice bucks out of the past 7 years of owning the farm. The stand sits about 30 yards back in the woods looking south on the top of an oak ridge. To the south and north there are two monster ravines that the deer use to travel, I can shoot down into both of them. The rest of the ridge is to the east about 70 yards, and to the west is a thick food plot of sorgum and milo on top of the ridge about 150 yards. The rest is a finger of CRP that comes back into the woods to the edge that my stand sits off of, there is also a bedding area out there. If I go to this one I will sit there all morning.
2) A shooting house that sits on the ground.....its about 200 yards from the stand that I just talked about off the edge up by the food plot. The problem is with that stand I will walk right by the shooting house...and right by the foodplot that deer use all night. This shooting house has fingers of timber and bedding cover all around them, from here you can also see another food plot and a pond, but you cant shoot to them. You are just sitting out in the CRP but there is walls to protect you from the wind. This would keep me out of the food plot, and allow me to see the bedding areas, but usually the deer quit moving out in the CRP around 9 so then I will most likely move back into the stand...possibly desturbing all the area around the stand.
What do you guys think I should do? Will the deer get away from the cold in the timber ravines or will they bed down in the thicker grass to stay warm? Either way the wind is to my advantage....its going to be a cold one, I know that.
1) sit in a stand that we usually kill some does and have killed 3 really nice bucks out of the past 7 years of owning the farm. The stand sits about 30 yards back in the woods looking south on the top of an oak ridge. To the south and north there are two monster ravines that the deer use to travel, I can shoot down into both of them. The rest of the ridge is to the east about 70 yards, and to the west is a thick food plot of sorgum and milo on top of the ridge about 150 yards. The rest is a finger of CRP that comes back into the woods to the edge that my stand sits off of, there is also a bedding area out there. If I go to this one I will sit there all morning.
2) A shooting house that sits on the ground.....its about 200 yards from the stand that I just talked about off the edge up by the food plot. The problem is with that stand I will walk right by the shooting house...and right by the foodplot that deer use all night. This shooting house has fingers of timber and bedding cover all around them, from here you can also see another food plot and a pond, but you cant shoot to them. You are just sitting out in the CRP but there is walls to protect you from the wind. This would keep me out of the food plot, and allow me to see the bedding areas, but usually the deer quit moving out in the CRP around 9 so then I will most likely move back into the stand...possibly desturbing all the area around the stand.
What do you guys think I should do? Will the deer get away from the cold in the timber ravines or will they bed down in the thicker grass to stay warm? Either way the wind is to my advantage....its going to be a cold one, I know that.
