It’s a pretty big chunk of state and there’s some small trails all over the place. You will be hard pressed to find a bunch of spots even a hundred yards from some kind of trail on the map. Some of them don’t even look like trails if you were there in personJust in general I dont like that area due to amount of foot and wheeler trails but if I was going to try to find a spot to hang it would be where the E/W unnamed rd cuts the head of that draw. That spots looks like the best point of compounding features, head of the draw, old road, creek crossing and vegetation transitions or edges. I would check for a big scrape between the heads of the two draws to confirm buck use/travel but look at hanging around where the wheeler trail cuts the drainage if boots on the ground scouting warranted it.
Some good info above. I’d also check out the spot where it says “75 calm” in the top right. You map doesn’t show what’s to the right of that area but I’d take a look there as there are 2-3 features converging there as well, and (without having that section of the map) the human intrusion aspect.Saw this spot on the map and was wondering what your thoughts are on it. It’s kinda like a bench/saddle/3-ridge convergence
When you are out scouting, mark the different types of sign you find with pins. Then go back and look at the aerial and and topo maps and look at the landscape level picture your pins paint in relation to topo features and vegetation changes or features, etc. I think that will help you get more comfortable with maps quicker than about anything. If you do that on some ground you know and what you see starts making sense, you can then apply it the other way with escouting, where you pinpoint the spots on your maps then go verify in person.I’m amazed at how much y’all see on aerials. I love reading this. Thank you