I thought this was an interesting topic last time, so have a go at these. Headed to TN next week to hunt a new property. Inside the blue is private property we are hunting. Owners said there's a bumper crop of acorns. Two smaller fields are planted and the big pasture often is farmed, but unsure if it was this year.

With a property that small, as far away from a road as you can get.

It's 150 acres that butts up to 5k acres of management land.

Depends on if the rut is on and how steep that creek bottom is. I would try overlooking that creek bottom first. You will be surprised where those goats will walk.

I have also found bucks tending does in the heads of those bottoms but you have to get there EARLY.

Watch a few of this guy's videos & how he breaks down a piece of land ...

turn them dang beagles aloose boy! you`ll have every danged spike and doe nanny maimed up quick like. drop the tailgate then drop the hammer! wheweeeeeee gettum son!

Land owner said that they just harvested corn from the big pasture and left a lot on the ground.

What?! Some of the better stands I've ever hunted were in sight of a public road. Still are. Deer pay no attention to traffic. I'd get somewhere I could get close to them piling in that harvested corn field in the evenings, maybe that inlet where the field cuts to the northwest with a predominately west wind.

I guess every road isn't created equal. Some are really busy and noisy. I was also assuming the property was much smaller than 150 acres, just by aerial appearance.

I was watching a documentary on coyotes a while back and they one tagged with GPS tracking. It would hang out in a small wooded area between the off-ramp and interstate during the day.

I like this spot either on the edge of that saddle or on one of the benches that run east out of the saddle. That's an easy trek for them to come out of those corn fields and through that valley to where they are probably bedding toward that peak. I would bet they're using those benches to move along the valley and then up the saddle to bedding. That's where I would hunt anyway.

Haha.

With all the food options, heat etc, It's hard to pattern their movements. We have almost the same problem at our lease in Wayne County, TN. Sorry for the horrible pic, but these are the areas I'd hunt and you need to sit all day. The rut is about to explode at anytime at our place.

This is in Lawrence County, and I was told next weekend when we went would be around when the rut usually kicks off.

That place looks hard to hunt in the AM if you don't like to walk and get above them. I hunt it in the AM , I'm walking up the line on one side or the other depending on the wind, then looping down from the top.

I Find these threads interesting.

Well, I guess y’all are right then. Go sit on the shoulder on your tailgate and wait for ol Mossy Horns to step out

Hunting the very edge of the property line and be sure to face your stand either down the line or slightly facing the neighboring property.

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