Guyon
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Friend of mine recently toured some land owned by his father-in-law and was astounded by the size and number of scrapes he saw. He got permission to hunt there and even finagled an invitation for me to hunt with him.
I haven't seen the land, and I won't be able to scout much for the first morning of hunting. I should manage to get in five hunts though (Friday morning and evening, Saturday morning and evening, Sunday morning).
It's about 150 acres of hardwoods and some pines. I'm aware of one food plot with a shooting shack, but we'll be hunting out of climbing stands. My friend is going to do a bit of scouting on Thursday, find a couple of spots and mark them with some Night Eyes as well as their GPS coordinates so we can find them in the dark on Friday morning.
Where would you set up? Along one of these scrape lines? Between the scrapes and the food plot? Over the food plot? Somewhere else?
This land is in east-central Alabama, and I'm told that the rut can run as late as January there, so some deer may well be in rut.
Just looking for advice here from more experienced hunters.
I haven't seen the land, and I won't be able to scout much for the first morning of hunting. I should manage to get in five hunts though (Friday morning and evening, Saturday morning and evening, Sunday morning).
It's about 150 acres of hardwoods and some pines. I'm aware of one food plot with a shooting shack, but we'll be hunting out of climbing stands. My friend is going to do a bit of scouting on Thursday, find a couple of spots and mark them with some Night Eyes as well as their GPS coordinates so we can find them in the dark on Friday morning.
Where would you set up? Along one of these scrape lines? Between the scrapes and the food plot? Over the food plot? Somewhere else?
This land is in east-central Alabama, and I'm told that the rut can run as late as January there, so some deer may well be in rut.
Just looking for advice here from more experienced hunters.
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