Favorite Terrain Feature
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Favorite Terrain Feature
What’s your favorite terrain feature? When and why do you like it?
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Re: Favorite Terrain Feature
Solitude. Ok that doesn’t count...
My favorite terrain feature is a funnel created by water of some kind.
My favorite terrain feature is a funnel created by water of some kind.
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Really, really steep hills. Cuts down hunter traffic. The deer don't mind. The hunters and the deer travel fairly predictably.
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Water. Cuts down easy access points, natural funnel, creates edge, concentrates sign and creates more predictable movement.
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PK_ wrote:Solitude. Ok that doesn’t count...
My favorite terrain feature is a funnel created by water of some kind.
Elaborate, please!
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elk yinzer wrote:Really, really steep hills. Cuts down hunter traffic. The deer don't mind. The hunters and the deer travel fairly predictably.
Like the head of deep cuts?
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Water. For the funnels they create and the access complications they create for others.
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funderburk wrote:elk yinzer wrote:Really, really steep hills. Cuts down hunter traffic. The deer don't mind. The hunters and the deer travel fairly predictably.
Like the head of deep cuts?
Really anything steep. I get to feeling a little weird in flatlands. I think I would go mental living on the plains.
As a more specific terrain feature, large rolling steep ridges with narrow benches at different elevations. And a flat top. All the hunters will be up on top on the flat. I'm slaying deer where they live on the side of the ridge. Travel is easy to figure out. Deer hate to sidehill when they don't have to.
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Not really a terrain feature other than lowland but marsh is my favorite. It’s thick, wet and nasty but I love it. Not hard at all for me to find the solitude that I seek and it just so happens that it’s same the exact place the big bucks like to call home. Within in it are an endless supply of pinch points created by deep water and islands along with plenty of bedding that is fairly predictable.
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ill take a beaver dam in the middle of no where.
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I like water, deep water 4 or 5 foot deep. Hunters don't want to deal with it and deer swim it no problem. Always tons of sign just on the other bank and typically the wind blows on it and removes my scent alot faster.
That are a very nasty swamp that has lil islands out in it are big cypress tress knocked over in a pile out in the water far away from the bank. Big bucks straight up dig places like that where I hunt. And it's nice and empty except for me and the deer.
That are a very nasty swamp that has lil islands out in it are big cypress tress knocked over in a pile out in the water far away from the bank. Big bucks straight up dig places like that where I hunt. And it's nice and empty except for me and the deer.
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Like others mentioned, it's all bout the H20!
My 2 favs are Lakes and creeks.
Lakes I like coves the longer the better. Seems all deer paralleling the shoreline will angle to the back of the cove to avoid having to swim across.
Creeks I look for bends that pinch travel against something. Be it road, open pasture, rail road tracks etc...
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My 2 favs are Lakes and creeks.
Lakes I like coves the longer the better. Seems all deer paralleling the shoreline will angle to the back of the cove to avoid having to swim across.
Creeks I look for bends that pinch travel against something. Be it road, open pasture, rail road tracks etc...
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magicman54494 wrote:ill take a beaver dam in the middle of no where.
Ooooh. I like your style.
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East wind bedding spots, especially in hill country,we dont get it often but if you get it seems big bucks are just a little more vulnerable & I have good days then, Mike
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Re: Favorite Terrain Feature
Giant wetlands within agriculture areas with potential for long term survival of bucks. My second favorite is old field habitat. With tree lines of oaks and scattered pockets of brush and trees.
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