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Originally Posted By: Rocket62
Originally Posted By: 2Dogs
Originally Posted By: ridgestalker
Come in from the top if possible.


absolutely


but how in the heck do you get him out once you bagged him?


Better hope your friends n family like you enough to help drag if needed.. After this past yr. JBatey owes me from helping drag his big o buck deer outa the woods. Unfortunately or fortunately, however you look at it. Our woods are not accessible to get through most places on atv due to thickness and huge limestone rock. Makes for a heckuva drag even downhill.

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Originally Posted By: leroycnbucks
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I like hunting flat land because I'm a lazy fat butt over fifty.


I'm over fifty. smile


And you have a bad as Toyota with a winch. All I have is a rope. laugh


I don't drive said Toyota to my stands I walk, up and down..........alot. Keeps me young.



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Make sure it is a buck you are going to pay to mount if you shoot it. Shoot it twice, if it moves shoot it again. Don't want to shoot a pop shot or in the back side to chase over those hills and hollows. Hunt uphill from where you park. Get a big 4wd vehicle or atv. Otherwise stay home!
Wind is hard enough to deal with on flat ground. Those hills and hollows send scent around and about sometimes a quarter of mile any deer can smell. Sometimes you just have to hunt when you can!

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I know this has been said , In mountain terrain ,there is a mountain walk system a way of traversing terrain , it may take a little longer but it a lot more easy on you.

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Originally Posted By: 2Dogs

There are about only two ways to truly "hunt the wind" in the mountains, I shake my head when I hear that term , BTW.


Yep

I like benches about 3/4 the way up that correalates to saddles if possible.


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And exercise before open week. Layer so you can add when you get to your spot, you will sweat getting to and from.


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I walked some of the property Saturday and found one good area that is fairly thinned with plenty shooting lanes and flat. I found some trees on the saddles that I can get a climber in. But the soil looks terrible. Rocky, red, sandy-looking soil. I don't know if I can get a food plot going or not. confused


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That's pretty much classic ridge and valley topography through there. I wouldn't call it mountains.

To a deer a ridge is either a travel option or an obstacle to be crossed. Ideal stand sites are intersections of two or more secondary points or easy up/down sloping long secondary points. Saddles are good stand sites. Old logging road on top of the ridge with an intersection of a saddle and steep draw coming up.

You need to understand what is below you. You want to hunt high over the thickest cover you can find down below in some sort of combination of terrain feature.

In my opinion easier to kill a mature deer in some terrain than flat pine land where they just run everywhere and all anyone knows how to do is blast the first one that sticks their nose out in the food plot.

Enjoy. Fun hunting in the hills.


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Points and knobs


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Don't think the deer won't walk along the steepest part of the ridge, cause they will.


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your not supposed to be killin the deer anyway just observe

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