favorite Tranisition lines

[jbone23]

What do think are the most productive types of transition lines? Hunting in the south trying to figure out what area to scout harder should I be looking at hardwoods against pine, SMZs running through clearcuts, and any other transitions you can think of.

[Hodag Hunter]

High ground to low land with water. Always good trails in either side, wet or dry more dominant use determined by pressure.

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[Hawthorne]

Standing cornfield next to a thick woods. If the woods has a dropping oak or apple on the edge even better.

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[Stanley]

Standing cornfield next to a thick woods. If the woods has a dropping oak or apple on the edge even better.

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I'm with you on this one.

[hunter10]

One of my favourite places to hunt is an open or semi open pocket in dense brush. The feeling that anything can happen at any time gives more excitement to my hunt

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[DaveT1963]

For me the best edge is one where it funnels deer and /or where two different edges comes together. EX: Inside corners with a creek, old logging road, powerline, rail road, etc. (some other terrain feature) that tightens at the inner corner are phenomenal. don't find these everywhere but when you do......

[Dewey]

Brushy points going out into cattails.

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[backstraps]

I hunt majority hill country...and I'm divided between picking a favorite transition

I like thick Nast cover bordering open hardwoods.

I think I like overgrown pine thickets bordering hardwoods as much

In flat-farmland I really like heavy crp/hardwood transitions the best

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[VA5326]

My favorite is where three different pieces of cover come together. Thick cover. Thinned pines, Mature hardwoods all come together with a pasture on the other side, and two creeks come together right in the middle of it all.

[Autumn Ninja]

Standing corn has got to be the best edge there is :)

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[DaveT1963]

Standing corn has got to be the best edge there is :)

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Trouble is that its getting harder and harder to find good corn fields on public land :)

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[hunter_mike]

Ones where nobody else hunts. Red dogwood marsh meeting up with oaks is a good one

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[IkemanTx]

Upperland to bottomland (as already mentioned) is a great one. Often, it is easy to see on sat photos too.





Out of the way CRP edges and floodplain areas have pretty much the same composition around here (a LITTLE more wood stem brush in floodplain) and can be dynamite if you sit a point out into it, or inside corner.

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[Matty]

The properties I hunt are so diverse, I think all of the ones mentioned can be the best.

The one I love the most is cattails butted up to a low growing swampy forest with lots of brush and small trees. It's thick and tough to shoot and the trees don't let you get more than maybe 9-12'. BUT....Because of that not many people around here seem to hunt that stuff so it's always full of deer and nice bucks.

However, we also don't have a lot of those type areas (I wish we had more). The more common transition for me is new growth thickets to hardwoods, it seems to be the dominant edge type we have in the north east. Lot's of old farms judging by the stone walls. Powerline cuts, older clear cuts, old fields, all seem to cause these thickets to grow. Some of it is the invasive russian olive, some of it is briers/prickers, some of it is simply stem dense new growth like spruce, beech, oak or birch, others I'm not really sure what it is, I just know it holds deer. lol

One thing we struggle with on most of our Northern WMA's though is lack of age diversity in the forests. We have a lot of old-growth mature forest that has little to no edge. They have finally started doing some cuts, but it's all political red tape to get even small cuts done. It's unfortunate, because we could have tremendous WMA properties.