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You could hunt it whenever you can make the trip. Probably could find a spot to park a camper or even a dirty couch to crash on. As older dudes I get it, I like comforts of home. I bought a house so I even get bored with my now 35 minute drive.

Decent, I picked up 8 or 9 there this year, out of around 26 total. The cool thing is I've been in contact or let some of the bucks walk this year so that's kinda neat for me to build history. Cams are looking good also for velvet. Our spot has 4 big gullies surrounded by ag and houses. Lots of deer spend all year on us.

Right! 2.5s are all over.

Lol so some of these guys need an o3 mask to stop there breath scent. All Sounds good to me. I have a friend who swears by ozonics, I was raised by Woolrich wearing, tobacco chewing, cig smoking guys. They taught me good wind for you is bad for the deer, good wind for the deer is bad for you so you have to either sit in acrosswind in a ambush location, or drive deer with the wind, pushers start up wind real quiet and slow.

It's a really great spot I love

I'm not in controll. We pay between 400 and 500 each. It's a little cheaper if you help with projects in the spring.

Where 2 different types of cover meet. Edges of hardwoods and softwood or swamp and hardwoods. You can See them on topo maps.

No presure, good cover, high stem count. When you find the bed and think about the wind it will make sense. East ridges, and east edges of transition lines, where the bed will be facing south east in many cases. But that's not always the case, in hill country they love to live all over bowls, I assume because the wind swirls so much.

I think this is relevant in many cases, on our land i sometimes see the largest oldest class of deer don't travel to far from home. Often they live on the same ridge system all year and I have seen many does go to them to be bred. I stem count and good cover with low presure can keep a buck in on spot all year long.

I believe it's very hard to trick a mature deers nose. They smell fresh earth and human separately at the same time. I also think people don't realize thermals play such a large roll in scent movement. After the sun comes up and the air starts to warm up your scent is going straight up in the air, many guys think this is because of the clothes they wear or soap they use.... I think keeping your scent as clean as possible is good, however deer don't ever smell fresh dirt in a tree, and I don't think ozone is all that natural in the woods. If you really want to control your scent you would have to stop breathing..... for some of you guys that would really be a good tip..... jk

I feel lucky to be here, it may not last forever but I'll be here as long as it's here for me.

Some pics so far.

We are a small family holding on to as much as possible in a good location. We do it because we love it.

700+ acres, under 500$ for the season. Usually 5 or 6 guys total and presure durring gun season is alot more than archery season. In the focus zone so can kill as many does as possible, usually 30 to 60 deer a year taken from our groups. Plus Crack at some good bucks.

You can get away from guys over there. But rut can be a total show. Look just north of Burdette areA

Have spots to hunt in central NY. Very reasonable cost for such great land. 700+ acres.

They really love that old stump....

You are probably correct, this country is pretty great at sharing between opposite ends of the same spectrum. My children are Chinese American.... what a great world I raise them in where they can agree to disagree.

I'm sure you won't have any problems making your children act just like you. Lol

This tolerance is logic. I'm far from liberal. These common political jabs are regular responce from narrowminded myopic people, after getting called out for saying something inappropriate. Blame my political position, fine but you are very wrong as well. I haven't voted in 20 years and think our 2 party system is a total failure. We are still the best country in the world, still a land of opportunity but that's not because of either administration.

The separation of society based on race, political stance, gender, age, class, sexuality, nationality, and so on, are part of what's fueling many terrible occurrences across the world. We are supposed to be proud of a national identity built on the promise of equality. Labeling a sickness duragatorily based on theoritical origin is clearly adding to segregation not eliminating it.

Yip, still racist bigotry all over it

Even outside of nighttime fun, No one will hunt or fish as hard as me, earlier or later. It's not lame but lack of drive I suspect. I just don't want to miss being in the woods or water.

Even outside of nighttime fun, No one will hunt or fish as hard as me, earlier or later. It's not lame but lack of drive I suspect. I just don't want to miss being in the woods or water.

Mushrooms!!!