Made your own deer funnels?

[Aeds151]

If you hunt a private property with fences on it just lowering the top strand or raising the bottom strand is enough to make deer use that spot to cross a fence, they are lazy creatures whenever they can be.

I just started cutting fence. I noticed the does will jump it to come into my backyard but the bucks hang up in powerline and wont cross. I need 1 hoove on my property to legally shoot it. The owner doesnt check the fence and its down bad on each side of me rendering it useless so im just gonna remove it.


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[krub6b]

I just started cutting fence. I noticed the does will jump it to come into my backyard but the bucks hang up in powerline and wont cross. I need 1 hoove on my property to legally shoot it. The owner doesnt check the fence and its down bad on each side of me rendering it useless so im just gonna remove it.


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I'd be cautious cutting line fence, depending on your state you may be liable to replace the whole fence if you remove it without consent from the other landowner

 

[Gator]

Just a thought I have had a few time. Curious if anyone has tried it. Would have to be on private. But put sections of fence up to try and funnel deer traffic thru certain areas? Maybe entrance and exits off a food plot? Or just to protect a blind side?
Something I have wondered about it it would work. I don't have the time, money, or property to give it a try. Plus keeping a fence in tack in the woods would be an almost 24/7 operation.
Maybe you did something natural? Or does it have a negative effect?

When I had my old farm, I had one place where deer skirted me quite often, just outside of bow range. I hinge cut a wide swath of trees making a wall of downed trees. I never did kill a big buck because of it, but it definitely forced the deer up near me or way down in the bottom where I never saw them anyway. Ended up killing a number of does but never could be there at the right time for a big buck.

 

[thedutchtouch]

I'd be cautious cutting line fence, depending on your state you may be liable to replace the whole fence if you remove it without consent from the other landowner

Agreed. A tree might "fall" on the posts and knock the rest of the fence to the ground though... That would be a natural occurrence and not something you did...

 

[Hunter260]

I've always wanted to run high fence in a big X with the circle cut like this:

\ /
/ \

For giggles.


Although...doing crap like that smells like work, and I've made it my life's goal to avoid falling into the grinder of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Easier and funner to find the deer where they be. I don't even like hauling corn, setting cameras, and trimming shooting lanes.

The best deer funnel is a well stocked corn pile

 

[Nutterbuster]

The best deer funnel is a well stocked corn pile

Dollar for dollar, hour for hour, in most environments I've seen, and provided that the sole qualifier is producing deer during daylight shooting hours...yep. Corn is efficient.

 

[JC3]

I had a situation where a very nice buck was feeding in an ag field with 2 different entry trails.
Naturally, I could never guess the one he was using.
So I used a old trick and hung a smelly shirt on the trail leading into the field I was not on and lo and behold he showed up at the trail I was on.
He now adorns my wall.

 

[skydoc]

Jeff Sturgis from Whitetail Habitat Solutions, actually has some pretty good videos on youtube about hinge cut funnels. He recommends cutting trees perpendicular to the area of desired travel rather than parallel. You then leave an open spot between hinge cuts as an “escape” route. Repeat that pattern as ya go down the intended travel corridor. His concept was to funnel them but to not make a buck feel like it’s corralled.

 

[Aeds151]

Dollar for dollar, hour for hour, in most environments I've seen, and provided that the sole qualifier is producing deer during daylight shooting hours...yep. Corn is efficient.

Naturally, a big mature white oak that is putting off acorns abundantly in an area with cover, water, and not an over abundance of the same caliber trees producing their own hard mast. For instance, a pine stand. It could be red oak or black oak or even beech nuts in an area that allows and that simply the other mast producers are just not, for their own biological reasons. Such as time of the year/season.


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[jiwhite86]

Actually did some “blocking” earlier this week. We prepped a bunch of saddle trees and put up two semi-permanent sets. Needed to block one trail and just piled up tree tops and limbs we cut over the trail. Should work…we’ll see.

Public? Private? Can you follow up later with How that worked out?

Private. There are lots of old fields on this place and we have one hedgerow with a pine big enough for a lock on. The way it lays out is you have a trail to the north of the tree, and one to the south. We want the deer to use the one to the south(this is only an early season spot when we’ve got south winds). I’m thinking it should work pretty good, but I’ll update as we learn how it works.