I have been hunting this location for many years, and it's a great but tricky spot. I think I finally cracked the code on the best stand location last year. Anyway, it's a funnel with a pond and a pasture catty corner to each other necking down two large blocks of timber....one open mature hardwoods (neighbors) and the other thinned out hardwoods/thicket (my place).
View to the right. After the season last year I cut a shooting lane at an angle 120 yards up to the property line. Should have done it a long time ago....always here deer moving around up there but can't see them.
View to the left over the pond. I have a clover plot on the near side. On the far side, I killed of the vegetation over the summer and planted no plough last week, which is sprouting now. You can see the brown spots where the vegetation was killed. The pines and cedars in the near ground are what keep me from being picked of by the deer coming down the hill through the woods on the opposite side.
This is the view straight ahead. I thinned out enough to get a shot, but still pretty thick.
Here's the small clover plot by the stand....which is the treeline at the far end on the right.
Anyway, I can't wait to hunt this stand this year. I may save it until muzzleloader, undecided at this point.
