So I have a late season DIY gun hunt planned in the north. The property is basically a rectangle with the short sides to the north and south. Property is 3/4 a mile back off the pavement , 1.5 miles deep and .5 miles wide. Access is only from the south and is land locked by other private on the other 3 sides. Western boundary is a timbered creek bottom for 1.5 miles with some steep and some not so steep areas sloped on both sides. The north end of the property is timbered from west to east, a bench 250 yds wide all the way across. After the bench it slopes downward to the north. The center of the property is ag and it’s on the ridge tops. 50ac beans 50ac corn. Splitting the two ag areas is a thermal hub 150 yds wide with the mouth at the west ending in the creek bottom. Another thermal hub in the southern ag field runs SE to NW with the mouth in the creek bottom. Eastern boundary is where ag meets timber, the timber to the east is a no go. Ag fields have ridge lines in different directions.
I took a look at an extended forecast for wind directions but we all know you really won’t know till it is much closer to day of. I am seeing winds of N,ESE,S more than W,NW. Never hunted this piece before but have been staring at google earth for more than I care to disclose LOL.
Things I don’t like. Mornings going in, to get to the timbered bench or back slope to the north I am pretty exposed in the ag , I’m worried about busting them out of the fields. I can and will use the terrain to cover me as much as I can. Walking the creek bottom to the back is not something I want to do, they are gonna bed/travel there when the wind is right. I’d like to hunt the top 1/3 of the slopes along the creek bottom in the afternoons when the wind is good hoping to catch them coming into the ag.
How would you hunt it?
I took a look at an extended forecast for wind directions but we all know you really won’t know till it is much closer to day of. I am seeing winds of N,ESE,S more than W,NW. Never hunted this piece before but have been staring at google earth for more than I care to disclose LOL.
Things I don’t like. Mornings going in, to get to the timbered bench or back slope to the north I am pretty exposed in the ag , I’m worried about busting them out of the fields. I can and will use the terrain to cover me as much as I can. Walking the creek bottom to the back is not something I want to do, they are gonna bed/travel there when the wind is right. I’d like to hunt the top 1/3 of the slopes along the creek bottom in the afternoons when the wind is good hoping to catch them coming into the ag.
How would you hunt it?
