Favorite Terrain Features

[Jermh]

Season is getting close and as I was sitting here at lunch staring at OnX I figured this could be a fun thread. Do any of you guys have a particular type of terrain feature that seems to be more productive for you or that you prefer to sit? What part of the country you are in could be helpful.

East central Missouri here. It seems like the past couple of years I’ve found myself gravitating more towards heads of drainages and inside corners. For where I hunt it has just seemed the most consistent. Curious what your thoughts are.

 

[Wheels]

Ridge top fence crossings and pinch points.

 

[Eship]

I hunt around quite a few lakes which are mostly open hardwoods. My favorite areas are always the thick brush and swamp that surrounds rivers as they enter the lake.

 

[Pilarczyk85]

I've been finding more and more that river bottoms are producing not only bigger bucks but just deer in general. Have started concentrating more on hunting those spots.

 

[Dave Thomas]

I'm in Louisiana and I like to hunt where an old clear-cut is over grown or has pines that are a few years old meets a hardwood bottom.

 

[Dobeman887]

Like many have said- ridges/benches.

 

[Adack]

Triangle pinch points

 

[Dougfir]

In the Adirondacks, I’m a big fan of softwood stands along boggy streams and associated open areas (called vlys locally). If there’s interesting topography around them, even better.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Saddles on ridges running perpendicular to the mountain. Old logging roads running parallel to the mountain. The two features combined are lovely.


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[NRA4LIFE]

My place in MO has a major pinch point between 2 fields that also has a brushy creek bottom. Dynamite. Brushy field edges and fence lines too.

 

[knighttime22]

This is an interesting topic, neat to see the different terrains people focus on based on different parts of the world!

 

[Boarmaster]

Saddles connecting two different pieces of heavy cover. Valleys or Drains up against clear cut , mature timber and some thick stuff. Any place with an edge or a corner.

 

[Eship]

What’s interesting about this is that some of these are features that you truly don’t understand how to search for them or what makes them so good until you see it in person. Once you see it, it all makes sense. For me, that just proves why on the ground scouting is best tool to ensure success.