Badlands and Breaks

[Cedarsavage]

What do you look for when you're escouting this terrain? It looks like the mostly bed in shade? I'm assuming wind to back, or does it matter?

 

[TL406]

Water, shade, food source.

In that order.

 

[Cedarsavage]

Water, shade, food source.

In that order.

Whats the ideal food source on public?

 

[TL406]

Whats the ideal food source on public?

Early season: stuff that looks green on aerial imagery

Late season: thick sage brush patches

 

[Dos Perros]

If you find the right glassing spots, you'll probably have a vantage to look over all of it (good and bad) anyway. We routinely pick up deer several miles away.

ETA: Maybe I ought to answer your original question. I look for 'terrain,' and glassing spots that let me look over lots of ground. If there are cows there, there will be water, either natural or man made sources. In my experience pretty much all of it has cows. Flat wasteland type ground isn't that interesting to me, unless there is a good glassing spot that lets me look at a lot of it at one time.

 

[Cedarsavage]

If you find the right glassing spots, you'll probably have a vantage to look over all of it (good and bad) anyway. We routinely pick up deer several miles away.

ETA: Maybe I ought to answer your original question. I look for 'terrain,' and glassing spots that let me look over lots of ground. If there are cows there, there will be water, either natural or man made sources. In my experience pretty much all of it has cows. Flat wasteland type ground isn't that interesting to me, unless there is a good glassing spot that lets me look at a lot of it at one time.

I think if flat wasteland ground as antelope country. So avoid that?

 

[Dos Perros]

I think if flat wasteland ground as antelope country. So avoid that?

I dunno, they could be in there, wouldn't surprise me. What I'm getting at is, if you have a good master glassing spot, and you're looking over what you think is good habitat, but you can also look over bad habitat, glass it all and hunt the bucks where you find them.

 

[Cedarsavage]

I dunno, they could be in there, wouldn't surprise me. What I'm getting at is, if you have a good master glassing spot, and you're looking over what you think is good habitat, but you can also look over bad habitat, glass it all and hunt the bucks where you find them.

gotcha

 

[wytx]

Shade may not matter if they can catch a nice breeze, water is a big key I think as stated.

 

[MTN Humper]

By the title I thought this was about Badlands packs