Logging road

[attackone]

Options on older logging roads, anyone hunt on them

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[Ghost Hunter]

How old of logging area you talking about?

[attackone]

Well some of the ones that i hunt are pretty old and others our 5-8 years old

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[Ghost Hunter]

The logging roads are a good place for trail cams. They travel them frequently during the summer time. The rest depends on contours, transitions between cutovers an open woods, food sources an bedding.

[Stanley]

The logging roads are a good place for trail cams. They travel them frequently during the summer time. The rest depends on contours, transitions between cutovers an open woods, food sources an bedding.

I agree.

[PK_]

I killed my two biggest archery bucks in PA off old logging roads that cut just below doe bedding and connected buck bedding. Bucks also bed right on the logging roads where the hills are real steep. Find one that runs right along the top of where a hillside drops off real steep with thick stuff just above it, hunt it when it is on the leeward side, during the rut, especially midday.

[dan]

Find one that is w3here you would expect buck travel in daylight and where it makes it easier for a buck to travel and they will t6ravel them if people are not walking it... I have hunted logging roads along the thermal tunnel in hill country during cruise phase with good results.

[JoeRE]

Yea if logging roads are in a travel corridor anyway they really funnel movement.

I have set up on logging roads that were probably 80-100 years old in hill country....as long as they are not choked with brush everything likes to walk up and down them which can be good and bad. Hikers, horsebackriders, 4-wheelers, small game hunters all like to walk logging roads to. I tend to avoid old public land logging roads.

[dan]

I reme4mber a hunt in Sauk county on some public land where I went in at noon during rut and was setting my stand up over a logging road and looked down to see a nice 10 point walking up the road within easy bow range, if my bow was not sitting on the ground 10 feet from him...

[headgear]

Bucks use them steady in the northwoods, like Dan mentioned for daylight hunting you need to be way off on your own where no one else is going to travel. Otherwise even with traffic they use them all time at night, a good way to setup a cam to take inventory of your area.

[BigCedarJack]

Good Thread!

[mauser06]

Like was said use will vary but I've found some to be awesome...

Like was said sometimes they'll bed on it if it works for them...

Others its travel corridor...


Heck I do well on periodically used ATV trails..I can't tell you the number of deer I've piled up on ATV trails...I betcha the majority of my deer were killed while inwas on or really near an ATV trail or the deer was..that includes flintlock/gun/bow and deer coming from pushes etc..


Deer are lazy and theyll use the path of least resistance just like most everything..usually that's a nice ATV trail or logging road..

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[daveynewman]

Where i hunt in actually fools one that was on the 1/3 side of a hill it was rondomly blocked off in sections by huge falling trees. The way I was going I found very little sign of deer movement. But as I got farther down the trail my lft side I found 3 beds. 2 of them actually had the remains of dead deer in them but no antless i could find. My right side was a pretty good drop off. As I passed the beds that's where I really found some trails and prints and droppings..it's hard to set up on that side because it turns into private..I have to find a way to approach that side because my only way would be to come from the bottom up. And hug the side of posted land.

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[daveynewman]

Where i hunt in actually fools one that was on the 1/3 side of a hill it was rondomly blocked off in sections by huge falling trees. The way I was going I found very little sign of deer movement. But as I got farther down the trail my lft side I found 3 beds. 2 of them actually had the remains of dead deer in them but no antless i could find. My right side was a pretty good drop off. As I passed the beds that's where I really found some trails and prints and droppings..it's hard to set up on that side because it turns into private..I have to find a way to approach that side because my only way would be to come from the bottom up. And hug the side of posted land.

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My quick typing from my phone is horrible lol

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[attackone]

i think just about most of the areas that i hunt have a fair amount of logging roads in them, i seem to have some success but its mainly just does and little bucks.....i find alot of scrapes and rubs on the roads but still believe that 95% of them are night activity, but alot of that might be due to me since i use the logging roads as access into the woods.