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Setup breakdown in new growth pines.

Great video. I have four different places in two states that look exactly like what he was walking through.
Now I have a better idea of how to hunt them.
 
We call them logging decks in middle GA. If you can find acorns on the edge of the young pines, you should be all over the deer. Transition zones are where you find deer around here.


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We call them logging decks in middle GA. If you can find acorns on the edge of the young pines, you should be all over the deer. Transition zones are where you find deer around here.


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Loader set or logging deck is what we call them too.
 
I'll be back to those same woods again to poke around more and ill be in the pine rows more... Hopefully it's not crazy thick and I can get back into this area I been looking at on the map.... I'll try to remember to document a little better
 
This a quota hunt and its public... If u recognize and u wanna hunt these too.... Go for it, it's public. I'll do some scouting for ya....hahaha

Here's what I'm looking at. We will have to put in some effort in and see how it looks in person

I found this pic.... the E/W road at the bottom of the pic is the property line and the private is an active hunt clubScreenshot_20230807-091409~4.png

How it looks currently....u see all the landing zones out in the pinesScreenshot_20230807-092528~2.png

And here's the destination area... Hopefully i can get back in there...a small preliminary look last trip makes me think it's a good chance I can make it back in there. We also keeping an eye out for feeders on the private

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i can't believe you're scouting right now. it's been 100F+ over here. i would've liked to scouted more the past few weeks but the brutal heat has kept me inside.
 
you're a stronger man than me. or maybe I'm the dummy for wearing long-sleeves and jeans....
 
I went out this morning and the heat was pretty bad. I checked out a small part of an area I have never set foot in before, several thousand acres in size. I knew it was hilly from the topos and it did not disappoint on that account. Most of the area I walked today was just big, open woods. A deer desert. The first area I walked I dropped down into the creek bottom and walked about half a mile. By that point I was pretty hot and having not seen anything to get me motivated I backed out. There was fresh sandy soil all along the creek. I saw a total of one old deer track on that whole walk.

I then drove about a mile to the East and the woods seemed to be getting thicker. I had a couple of e-scouted spots of interest within a half mile so I rehydrated, threw a couple of more waters and a Gatorade in the backpack and off I went. Just past the spot I had marked on the map I found what I was looking for. Three terrain types met up in thick cover. There were two nice white oaks along a bench with a steep hillside above them choked down with dense cover with a steep drop down to a creek below. Along the bench were some historical rubs. From the look of the spot it is a location where a buck was spending some time. A good trail crosses some open ground with thick low cover to the East, enters the thick woods, crosses the bench, and makes its way out into the more open woods to the West. My plan is to hunt the spot at some point during the upcoming season and see if I can intercept a buck in there. I can access it through a deep ravine and stay out of sight. I would rate this spot as a "B". Good enough to put in the rotation if I need a place to hunt while I am leaving my "A" spots alone.

But yes, it is terribly hot and humid.
 
i feel like a big whiner now about the heat. that sounds like a good scouting session.
 
mschultz373 said:
i feel like a big whiner now about the heat. that sounds like a good scouting session.
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No, not at all, lol. It was borderline dangerous. That was partly the reason I backed out of that first spot and went back to the truck, rehydrated and cooled off and went somewhere else. I just love to be out in the woods and scout. That first area will have to wait until February, or maybe sooner if I just decide to scout/hunt out that big drainage during season.
 
[mention]Weldabeast [/mention] if I was scouting the area you are. I’d look at the yellow circle. The transition line and the break in the trees make me think that would be a high movement area.
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I usually find the buck bedding on the edge of the pines where it is the thickest, and the doe bedding inside the pines. If you can find the food source; get on the edge of the pines, on the down wind side during the rut, between the bedding and the food source, and you should be in the game.
 
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