Hunting a small property

[doublelung1]

I have permission to hunt a small piece of property thats surrounded by fields and is very thick. I've been hunting this property with my dad for about 8 years and we use to bait but now the deer are super cautious due to the hunting pressure. The deer will come into a new bait pile and look into the trees. It's very thick and hard to hunt and I really don't know what I should do at this point.

I have a stand in what seems to be a funnel with runs all around it and have yet to see a deer this year. I really dont want to give up the property because of some really nice deer in the area and the deer I have seen in the fields around the property. Any tips would ne great!

[blackpowder]

change trees, have lots of cover and don't move. Don't expect to shoot on the pile get them approaching the pile. Maybe move in the direction in which the deer are coming from

[fatboy]

Dont bait. Hunt the small trails. Only hunt the right wind. I have a similar property. It is only 10 acres 8 being feild. The area is HEAVILY hunted. Wait for the right conditions and it will come to you. Let the deer do the work it is only my opinion but it is really hard to kill a BIG buck on bait. The slightest pressure and they go nocturnal. Also be impeccable about scent control.

[doublelung1]

Thanks alot! this is all woods and one year the deer would sit back in the thick stuff look in the stand and if we were there they would just walk away so we set up a ground blind off to the side and the whole time they were coming in they were looking in the tree. They were still spooky and were slow to come in.

We do everything possible with scent control, take a shower, wash clothes, have scent blocker clothing, and spray down before entering the woods.

[PhilCVG]

Sounds like you are doing things right.

One thing my brother and I learned while hunting a similiar type of place was that if we crossed the deers usual path of travel on our way to our stands, it educated them quick and they would change patterns. We couldn't avoid it without getting permission from another land owner to use his land to enter this piece, so we did what we could with cover scents, rubber boots and hunting the edges instead of walking through the entire thing.

[mccool]

be happy