ghoasthunter wrote:rfickes87 wrote:After a week of cyber scouting on my lunch breaks at work I made it out to a new piece of public. Big woods hill country PA game lands. I walked the military crest and scouted all the remote points. I walked about 4.5 miles in total. It was a great day.
I just have to say... before the huntingbeast I never could have accomplished what I did in just one afternoon on such a big piece of land. I feel like I have a huge upper hand on the other hunters now. I hung 2 cameras. One on a bed and another on a heavy trail in some thick laurel that was on top of a remote point.
Here's a video I took with my phone from a bed... I found about 8 bucks bucks in total I believe...
https://youtu.be/bAt0lBTKt4E
Most of the beds I found had rub lines j hooking in and also going down in a straight line below. The land is high in elevation with private ag fields about 1/4 mile away down in the valleys. These deer have a lot of options for nature browse near the beds as well as water or they can drop straight down in the evening and head to those farms. This particular buck bed showed me that he was headed for those farms based on his rubs down below the bed in a straight line. This may be how I attempt to hunt it.
Anyway, a very rewarding day yesterday. I had a blast. I had gotten a tip from a local game warden last summer that this ground holds some really big bucks. It makes sense. I was 2 miles back from the road and there are some large farms surrounding it. Limited access and large surround farms should help produce older bucks. This might be my best piece of ground I've come across in recent years. Im really excited!
very good video and a perfect example of mature buck bedding in eastern woods and being a eastern hill side is even better the thermals will drop faster in evening giving you valuable time. to slip in and set up or you can hunt it with a quartering wind or on a low pressure day. is the trail dropping down right away or is he traveling on the wind tunnel then dropping down?
There is definitely a worn trail with a few rubs circling the point to the bed that would be in the thermal tunnel. The rub line i was talking about is around 20 yards to my right and about 80 yards down the hill. So he'd appear to walk the tunnel to my right about 20-30 yards and then drop straight down.
Your comment is the first time I realized i get the thermals falling quicker on an east facing slope... It makes perfect sense. His view won't be very good in early fall. Perhaps i should try and set up below him for an evening hunt...
Also why would i hunt on a low pressure day? Can you explain the motive? Hi pressure vs low pressure is something i don't quite understand.