Access Routes?
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Access Routes?
Hello! New Beast here looking for some info on what to look for when trying to determine access routes to the place i want to hunt. also are your exit routes the same as your access routes usually?
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Water access is ideal. As far as entrance and exit routes being the same. It depends on whether i'm going to hunt the area again. There deer are in one location when you are going to your stand and should be in a different location when you are leaving for the night. So entrance and exit routes are often different.
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I found an area this year that I could access from an old burn - used the same route in and out - if the deer didn't walk the outside of the woods, they would never smell me. I also only traveled 10-15 yards on inside. The majority of the deer travel was another 15-20 yards in from there. It could not have come together any better than that.
My second access route was on a walking trail that few folks used - when I hung the camera, the deer were spooky and didn't pass thru often. No doubt not liking my scent trail. It also could have channeled the deer to where I was hunting... Just thought of that.
My second access route was on a walking trail that few folks used - when I hung the camera, the deer were spooky and didn't pass thru often. No doubt not liking my scent trail. It also could have channeled the deer to where I was hunting... Just thought of that.
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My goals when planning access routes:
- Don’t blow my scent into target bedding
- When possible, don’t blow out satellite bedding
- Plan hunts/access to stack bedding
- Factor this in with exit routes
- Use terrain and natural features to conceal my movement and noise (ditches, creeks, rivers, hills, crp, etc)
- Pick routes where I can scout in (primarily nighttime sign- near or en route to feeding/does)
This past year, I started picking up some trash on my way out. Small thing but figured it’ll make a difference in a few years for future hunters. Might make areas look less pressured, but hunter recruitment trumps honey holes. I can relocate the deer.
- Don’t blow my scent into target bedding
- When possible, don’t blow out satellite bedding
- Plan hunts/access to stack bedding
- Factor this in with exit routes
- Use terrain and natural features to conceal my movement and noise (ditches, creeks, rivers, hills, crp, etc)
- Pick routes where I can scout in (primarily nighttime sign- near or en route to feeding/does)
This past year, I started picking up some trash on my way out. Small thing but figured it’ll make a difference in a few years for future hunters. Might make areas look less pressured, but hunter recruitment trumps honey holes. I can relocate the deer.
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Evanszach7 wrote:My goals when planning access routes:
- Don’t blow my scent into target bedding
- When possible, don’t blow out satellite bedding
- Plan hunts/access to stack bedding
- Factor this in with exit routes
- Use terrain and natural features to conceal my movement and noise (ditches, creeks, rivers, hills, crp, etc)
- Pick routes where I can scout in (primarily nighttime sign- near or en route to feeding/does)
This past year, I started picking up some trash on my way out. Small thing but figured it’ll make a difference in a few years for future hunters. Might make areas look less pressured, but hunter recruitment trumps honey holes. I can relocate the deer.
I do this too. Nothing frustrates me more than seeing empty worm cans, scent wicks, water bottles etc. Left in the field. As sportsmen its our duty to leave the woods better than we found it. We need to be the number one advocates of preserving and protecting nature for ourselves our fellow sportsmen and future generations.
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Michigander28 wrote:Hello! New Beast here looking for some info on what to look for when trying to determine access routes to the place i want to hunt. also are your exit routes the same as your access routes usually?
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The only question you need to ask is Can I get into this area without alerting the deer to my presence - and then work out the how. I don't care how good of an area it is, if you cant get in cleanly you are better off finding another ambush spot where you can. Sometimes it could be that its only huntable during high winds, or a certain wind, or use a creek/ditch, could be that you can only hunt it in Am by getting in there 2 hours before daybreak - there are so many considerations..... and no one can answer this but you. Sometimes you learn by trail and error and have to come in by going around in another direction.
A lot of folks can give you advice and some guidelines on what worked for them in their specific instances, but only YOU can figure out how it has to be done for your particular ambush spot(s). One of my spots is best entered by walking down a common hiking trail making no attempt to be silent. Then I simply walk past the bedding and then sneak back into a tree. Another area I could only hunt by having my friend give me a ride on his tractor or farm truck, dropping me off and then continuing to drive like normal as I snuck into the stand. Sometimes I use a kayak to circle around to the backside, Or I wade for 1/4-1/2 mile up a chest high creek, or I park in a parking area and sneak back up the road, other times I can walk straight to the tree with no worries about spooking the deer as long as the wind is right.......
And I also think through how to leave an area without disturbing the deer - this often means simply I must stay in the tree until they pass by after nightfall and then sneak out.
A lot of folks can give you advice and some guidelines on what worked for them in their specific instances, but only YOU can figure out how it has to be done for your particular ambush spot(s). One of my spots is best entered by walking down a common hiking trail making no attempt to be silent. Then I simply walk past the bedding and then sneak back into a tree. Another area I could only hunt by having my friend give me a ride on his tractor or farm truck, dropping me off and then continuing to drive like normal as I snuck into the stand. Sometimes I use a kayak to circle around to the backside, Or I wade for 1/4-1/2 mile up a chest high creek, or I park in a parking area and sneak back up the road, other times I can walk straight to the tree with no worries about spooking the deer as long as the wind is right.......
And I also think through how to leave an area without disturbing the deer - this often means simply I must stay in the tree until they pass by after nightfall and then sneak out.
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