I hunt two different properties with active cattle operations. I'll echo what everyone else said, it can be great hunting. Deer don't love cows, but they will tolerate them. Hunt the edges or set up shooting house, blind in the middle of open ground where you can watch the edges, crossing points, or low areas. Have seen deer cross open ground without a care in the world. Once they get in the open and can see 360, they seem to be at ease. Low spots, like creeks and ditches across an open pasture serve as travel routes and deer will bed in those, especially if there is any cover. I've hunted from farm equipment and the deer never paid it any attention. As somebody said, they pay zero attention to the farmer's truck, even it he's pulling an empty hay trailer with metal banging around. Cold mornings after the frost burns off, especially during the rut are great times to hunt a pasture.

Once watched a huge 10 point run a doe through a group of cows. Could never get a shot on him without possibly hitting a cow so I never pulled the trigger. Most important rule when hunting an active cow pasture. ALWAYS CLOSE AND SECURE EVERY GATE, every single time you go through one...ALWAYS.

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Before I moved to Oregon, I had access to some hayfields in Bullock County, some with shots over 600 yards. I would hunt them from ground blinds set up to watch along the edges. To prepare, I made a life sized deer silhouette from heavy cardboard, set it up and shot at it from the blind, sitting on a stool and shooting over crossed sticks. I did not put any bullseye on the target, just shot for the shoulder or behind. From that experience I decided that 300 yards was my practical limit. Whenever I set up to hunt, I would range the treelines and pick landmarks that would keep my shots inside 300 yards. I will add this advice--if you shoot one that doesn't drop, try to keep focused on where it ran back into the woods, so you have some idea on where to start looking for blood.

Some solid advice here, I am currently hunting a farm with cattle also. And like said above the cows will suck up all your acorns quick and bed up under the better trees. I have messed up abunch so I can tell you from experience, entrance is key! You can get away with a lot more as far a scent goes. To start out you need to kind of get maybe in between 2 fields that you can see along ways, just hunt and observe. Find where the deer travel the most, then ease to where you want. Have multiple stands for different variables. Something I didn’t do until lately, you must find their main thicket/bedding area. Now they will bed up in the sage or thick waste high patches of grass as temps start dropping for mid day sunning. But you gotta find their core location. Where you think they might live and nothing can bother them. Also check the fences for where the deer enter and exit the land does and bucks typically don’t use the same spot. And after a good rain is usually easy to locate where they’ve been using. A lot of does will go under the fence. And bucks are gonna jump it where it’s not as high maybe where a strand or two of bob wire is broken or sagging.