How does one hunt in honey locust tree?

[Allegheny Tom]

Yes it is...but it's the tree that's in the right spot...so desperate times call for desperate measures. Plus I can heal the small punctures. If I'm correct then this will be hot. My hunting partner just pulled his camera by the pond...this location is 50 yards from the pond. There are bucks and does in the field at 8 am and all day for the most part. I just need a wind from the north west...

I put a game camera about 10' up a tree facing the location...I'll let it soak for about two weeks and head up there mid september and won't be there till the second weekend in October for youth shotgun season.

I like your attitude. Sometimes we just gotta do what we have to do in order to get the job done.
Permission on a good property, or any property for that matter, is hard to come by. One of the best properties I've ever been on is 90% honey locust. There just aren't many non-locust trees that are hunt-able. I think it's worth the hassle to prep a locust when it's the right tree.

These locust trees are not all created equal. Some are terrifying just to look at them and some of them really aren't that bad to prep. But it only takes one stinkin' thorn to injure you. Yeah, eye protection is a good idea. I hate wearing glasses in the woods but I'm sure that they have saved my eyes from being poked, scratched, or bugs in them.
Hunt a locust when it's the best option, but be safe and be careful.

 

[Newhunter1]

I like your attitude. Sometimes we just gotta do what we have to do in order to get the job done.
Permission on a good property, or any property for that matter, is hard to come by. One of the best properties I've ever been on is 90% honey locust. There just aren't many non-locust trees that are hunt-able. I think it's worth the hassle to prep a locust when it's the right tree.

These locust trees are not all created equal. Some are terrifying just to look at them and some of them really aren't that bad to prep. But it only takes one stinkin' thorn to injure you. Yeah, eye protection is a good idea. I hate wearing glasses in the woods but I'm sure that they have saved my eyes from being poked, scratched, or bugs in them.
Hunt a locust when it's the best option, but be safe and be careful.

I will hunt with my back to the cedars as it will protect me from it's sister trunk/branch that goes up the other side and is full of thorns. I may in two weeks clear that trunk too when I go and get my cameras out of those woods. Either way...I feel this is one of the best locations on that side of the property. There is another side of the property that is 30 acres of alfalfa and timber with either poison ivy or locust trees. I like to hunt just on the inside of the tree line so that I can see the field but have shooting lanes in the timber.

 

[Newhunter1]

Spent Saturday prepping a honey locust tree... just be extremely careful. Wouldn't be a bad idea to wear eye protection. They are extremely pointed and when you cut them above your head they fall toward your face. Had one hit my arm and stick... OUCH...

I wear glasses and wear a hat with the brim in the correct position...facing front.

 

[rodd.cook]

I have found that those trees when younger...smaller diameter the thorns are as thick as Nancy Pelosi’s stupidity. However as they get taller or bigger diameter that they are not as much. I used my saw to knock if as many as I could but some still got into my hands. Especially as I was one sticking and had a bramble of branches to get through. As I would reach up I would inadvertently get poked. It was a tough time but I now have one of the best places I think to hunt....but in all honesty I may just go higher as I now have about 15’ of the trunk cleared.


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