How close is too close?

[sololearn9]

If you can make the shot, take the shot.

 

[John2488]

Today, I'm acquiring two TINY plots of land nestled within 15,000 acres of wild USFS land. The two plots I'm picking up are roughly 100 yards apart, and my desire is to make one of them (1/4 acre with road access) into my campground where I sleep, eat, and hang around a fire while the other one (smaller, still) into a food plot.

Would I ever be able to hunt this food plot successfully, or would noise, fire, and humans 100 yards away blow out the area?

I don't know prevailing wind directions for the area yet, so lets just assume they don't tend to be in my favor.

In my experience, deer don’t care about any smells that aren’t human. Cigarette smoke, coffee, burning wood… the deer just keep rolling by. Once your scent goes past them, they are gone.

 

[flathead#2]

A buck rubbed a recently planted plum tree 100' outside my bedroom window.
Hope it makes it.
Thinking I'm going to have a ladder stand at the back of the property this fall.

 

[MoeFaux]

Can you set up camp anywhere on the public land? If you can why don't you do that and put in 2 food plots?!!

I assume you're asking why i don't make BOTH of my lots into food plots? If that's the question, then the answer is simple - one of them has to be my campsite. I wouldn't get much hunting done if I had to drive two hours from my house every morning.