Originally Posted by CNC
For anyone who is interested....try this tactic. Sometimes in the next few weeks take a back pack spray and some glyphosate and make sure trip to your favorite food plot. Get in your shooting house or stand....Scan the perimeter of the field from one side to the other and pick out 4-6 spots that would be the simplest to create a shooting lane 30-40 yards back into the woods. It's gonna look like a wheel spoke pattern extending out from your stand. Now this is the most important part. Your not gonna make traditional shooting lanes or open something that looks like power line right of ways. You want it to be very inconspicuous and natural..... You're not gonna open it up 30-40 yards wide or anything....you just want enough to give you view back into the woods and as possible shot. This is why you're gonna use glyphosate....Go in right now and just do a real quick spray eraditcally waving the wand around....your just thinnimg the vegetation and leaves a little by burning them. Repeat this later this summer but remember to try not to open them up too much and make it where the buck feels exposed.

What you're hoping to take advantage of is the older bucks tendencies to follow the does to the food plot but never actually walks out in them....most folks likely never even know they're there. They'll often times circle the plot while staying back in the woods....this is where your inconspicuous wheel spoke lanes are gonna to catch him slipping....When the does come out in the field don't watch them.....watch your lanes for movement.....don't panic if you don't get a shot in the first you catch him in....that's why you made more of them


We have a "green field' on our lease that some one usually kills a good buck at every 2-3 years. Its a long narrow curved field if that makes sense, its at the base of a ridge int the middle of of a bunch of hard woods. every good buck that has been shot there has never stepped foot in the field. Theres a big shooting lane out the back one was killed in. 2 where killed waking about half way up the ridge and the others where killed to the left of the stand about 40-50 yards in the hardwoods.

We also have a bigger one acre field where we would constantly catch glimpses of big body deer in the woods. This year a guy put a stand up about 10 yards off the field facing the woods and shot a big 7 point