Ever found "the" spot?

Ever found one of those spots that just always seem to produce year in and year out? Lets hear about them. Mine is on a finger ridge on the South side of a food plot that has a saddle crossing between two deep thick draws. When the rut kicks in and the wind is right, that is the place to be.

1/2 acre food plot that had no rhyme or reason to be any better than anywhere else; in fact, it was closer to the public road than any other plot we had (less than 50 yards). It was just a buck magnet for some reason. Opening week of bow season you could count on having a chance at a mature buck...and it held it's share of bucks off and on all season long.

a bunch of them. One of my favs ain't called " The Pet Cemetery" for nothin'.

Powerline that cuts thru the waist of the hourglass of two big wood lots.

Power line that cuts across a 700yd wide bottom.

I've got a spot in georgia that is a road bed in the middle of a head high clear cut that was never replanted. The road makes an L shape, and I sit in the bend of it. Most of the deer on the property bed in that clear cut on a hillside. All the food plots and acorns that they can get to without crossing a paved road are across that road bed from where they bed. When I first found that spot, I set a chair right in the bend of it. You can see 250yds one way and about 200 the other. The first two days I hunted it, I killed a 9pt, a doe, and shot a 10 or 12 pt that dropped then got up and disappeared. I told my uncle to hunt it that next day and he killed an 8pt. The next afternoon I had to work, and I told my stepdad to hunt it and he killed another 8pt. Unfortunately, we changed leases, but we probably killed 15 good bucks out of that chair in 3 years.

that's impressive!

It was the most productive spot I've ever seen. The other members got a little pissed and actually changed the rules so that no one could have a "personal" stand anymore. I would routinely see 10-20 deer a sit, while everyone else in the club was having trouble seeing any at all. Of course, I like to hunt thick stuff and they were all content to sit over greenfields In wide open pines, nowhere near bedding areas

I had a spot on some land next to my place in Fosters. It was a strip of woods about 300 yards long and 50 yards wide. It was bordered by a marsh on the north, an overgrown pasture on the south and hayfields on the east and west. I always hung my loc-on in the same gnarly sweet gum every year about a month before bow season came in. There were 6 trails that converged 20 yards from that tree. I never worried about wind direction when I hunted it because deer came from all directions. I bet I killed over 30 deer with my bow out of that tree. I used call it the killing tree. The tornado that came through Fosters the week before the big one of April 2011 wiped that wood lot out and destroyed the killing tree.

I got one

An old clearing way down in the woods, and you can kill a good'un most any time. It is a long way to tote apples, peanuts and corn in tho...........

There was a creek with high banks and only two spots for 4 or 5 hundred yds that made easy crossing spots. On the far bank was a pine thicket, and on my side, a hardwood bottom that branched into trails leading to 3 green fields within 1/4 mile. You could count on deer to be using one of the two crossings. They were about 50 yds apart with a good tree to climb about half way between them. I had to climb high though, in case the deer took one of the down wind trails. I probably killed 30-40 deer there over about 10 years. Lots of does, but several were good bucks.

Mine is a beautiful open hardwood bottom with thick bedding area just up the hill. Also has a creek running through there. I have a stand 30 yards from the creek that the deer funnel through. There are always deer hanging out there all season long.

I have a spot directly across the street from our clubhouse that is my sweet spot.I have killed alot of deer out of one tree over there.I have climbed that pine so many times that it has turned white from the sap.What is cool to watch is when the other guys at camp crank up trucks and atv's in the morning.I can sit and watch them leave from my stand.Within about 15-20 minutes after they leave the deer start filtering up from out of the bottom to cross the road.They cross about 150 yards from our clubhouse to bed down behind the cabin.They know exactly when it is safe to cross and wont come up through there until everything quietens down.I have killed a slough of deer funnelling up that holler over the years and watched many many more that I never shot.I saw them so often that I actually got to the point that I started recognizing alot of them.

Yes, natural funnels.

Yes, natural funnels.

The first time I hunted in Camden Arkansas we hunted an 800 acre farm owned by a guy named Robert and his family. The first two days of gun season, Robert killed two very nice 8 pointers, so he was tagged out. The third day, his cousin Fred, who is from Trussville, AL, shot a MONSTER 8 pointer with chocolate colored antlers from the same ladder stand as Robert. The fourth day of gun season, Fred let me sit in the same ladder stand and I shot a beautiful 10 pointer. The stand overlooked a dry creek bed that was a natural funnel for bucks chasing hot does. All four bucks were chasing does, as the AR rut was going full blast. Went back the next year and it was 75+ degrees and the deer stayed bedded in thickets all day- virtually no deer sighted by a party of six hunters over a five day heat wave.

I have one. I haven't killed the biggest bucks in it but I did kill a mature 10 point last year. I am between two ridges (natural funnel) in select cut 15 year old pines and back up to a pine thicket with a small oak cluster that rains acorns early in the year. I never sat there without seeing a deer and I will usually see 3-4 rack bucks on an average hunt. One hunt I saw 11 different rack bucks in an 8 hour hunt. That same day I witnessed my first buck fight. No one else in the club hunts this spot as it isn't the easiest to get to. I killed this one last year out of it. Grunted him in off a rub line. I passed on him the week before but he got my blood boiling after running in looking to fight

I had one in my last club. It was the intersection of a gas line and power line with a creek crossing the two. The "other side" of the intersection was a private 2,000 acres that nobody had permission to hunt legally. Come rut it was always on at that stand.

I killed 5 bucks off of it in three seasons and my buddy who hunts with me killed 4

our most productive spot is a 1/4 mile long gas line that is 75 yds wide that we plant every year. One side has a 100 acre clear cut that replanted in pines 15 yrs ago and thick as all get out. The other side of the gas line is virgin hardwood timber. They will either be leaving the bedding area going to the hardwoods or returning. You ALLWAYS see deer there

Top of a cliff that overlooked a (mostly) dry creek bed. They walked along it looking for the few seeps that held water. Very important when hunting in the dry areas of West Texas.

I've found "the spot" on a few different tracts of public ground. Still hunt them too. The best one is a hardwood bottom that's bordered on one side by an old cutover that's awfully thick, and a steep hardwood ridge on the other side. You can catch the deer going to and from the thick stuff just about every morning and when the pressure is on, they will cross the bottoms to get to the bedding area. I've seen a few good bucks in the area, just haven't had the time to invest to make it happen.. I'll have a bit more time to get after them this year so I'm hoping to put a grown one down there this season.