snooze
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hey peeps,
so this will be my third season bow hunting in New Jersey, there is a ton of nice land and I believe our hunter success rate is in the 85%+ range so there's no lack of deer. i haven't harvested a deer yet, my goals are as natural as possible ( no trail cams, no bait ), they allow baiting here which adds a different type of challenge. anyways i have seen a couple of deer here and there mostly just sitting on anything that looks different from everything else. i spent the majority of the last two years putting miles in on the ground learning the woods and not really sitting in the tree too much. a lot of my friends said I was doing it all wrong and just to sit as much as possible and i think they are right so that's my plan this time around. alright sorry for the rant but on to my question... i've seen through research that if you're in hill country they will sit on the leeward side of hills on things like knobs or obviously any thick cover available. the properties i want to focus on this season honestly have everything in a matter of 200 acres, half will be elevated terrain with thick cover at-least, in the early season, the other half is low land terrain with some ferny, spongy terrain also with thick cover. besides targeting where other hunters will not be should I stick to the high ground cover or the low ground cover? when the late fall comes and most of the cover on the hills are gone will they seek the cover no matter the elevation or still stay up high?
one last question just to get it out of the way as I've been so curious about these things, most of the agg fields available to me are on an elevated plateau with elevation drop offs on all sides. this is super common in my area, most of these dips are low lying creek trenches parallel to the agg also have thick cover. again in this situation should I be focusing on the low ground cover or are they up top next to the field in the limited cover there? everything I've read so far points to deer really liking elevation. thanks for the help.
so this will be my third season bow hunting in New Jersey, there is a ton of nice land and I believe our hunter success rate is in the 85%+ range so there's no lack of deer. i haven't harvested a deer yet, my goals are as natural as possible ( no trail cams, no bait ), they allow baiting here which adds a different type of challenge. anyways i have seen a couple of deer here and there mostly just sitting on anything that looks different from everything else. i spent the majority of the last two years putting miles in on the ground learning the woods and not really sitting in the tree too much. a lot of my friends said I was doing it all wrong and just to sit as much as possible and i think they are right so that's my plan this time around. alright sorry for the rant but on to my question... i've seen through research that if you're in hill country they will sit on the leeward side of hills on things like knobs or obviously any thick cover available. the properties i want to focus on this season honestly have everything in a matter of 200 acres, half will be elevated terrain with thick cover at-least, in the early season, the other half is low land terrain with some ferny, spongy terrain also with thick cover. besides targeting where other hunters will not be should I stick to the high ground cover or the low ground cover? when the late fall comes and most of the cover on the hills are gone will they seek the cover no matter the elevation or still stay up high?
one last question just to get it out of the way as I've been so curious about these things, most of the agg fields available to me are on an elevated plateau with elevation drop offs on all sides. this is super common in my area, most of these dips are low lying creek trenches parallel to the agg also have thick cover. again in this situation should I be focusing on the low ground cover or are they up top next to the field in the limited cover there? everything I've read so far points to deer really liking elevation. thanks for the help.