Identifying saddles

[BlackpowderGuy (AJHS)]

Hi all- I am still trying to figure out how to read topo maps correctly. Are the yellow arrows accurately pointing to saddles?

when the terrain is not that hilly- say where the difference between the peak andsaddle is only 15-20 feet of elevation, so saddles still funnel deer or is it more when the saddle is more like a pass in the mountain?

 

[rhagenw]

Those are saddles, they will use any form of path resistance if there is thick cover adjacent to it. Other than fairly flat, what type of terrain/vegetation is this?

 

[Bigterp]

Your arrows are saddles but in the areas I’m at not every saddle is good. That top on is just a knob on the point creating the saddle. When a ridge tees into another ridge at a saddle those are dynamite!!! Others are good too,

 

[BlackpowderGuy (AJHS)]

Those are saddles, they will use any form of path resistance if there is thick cover adjacent to it. Other than fairly flat, what type of terrain/vegetation is this?

Basically just timber, mixed hardwoods, a lot of thin diameter trees interspersed with some larger red oaks...I sat today for 4 hours, saw nothing but squirrels...wind was right, but I think that spot is too far from food sources and therefore too far from doe bedding and therefore less buck action.